, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases … indicate smoothing of consumption through savings or other mechanisms. Finally, our limited happiness measures show no …

This paper argues that measures of life satisfaction, now being collected annually by the Gallup World Poll in more …

unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are … measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …

We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … correlations between life and health satisfaction and health measures shows that happiness (or self-reported health) measures … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita …

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect … weeks apart is 0.64, which is slightly higher than the correlation of life satisfaction (r=0.59). Correlations between … income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life …

, this paper designs a test that makes it possible to allow for different birth-cohorts. A robust U-shape of happiness in age …