between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … nationally representative samples to study the correlates of religion within and between more than 140 countries using more than …

of happiness. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), we examine whether households who contribute to a … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for … blacks but smaller effects for whites. Overall, our results are consistent with the view that religion provides an …

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …

We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of … in status and 52% of one standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long …

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and …