, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases … proceed by using the large variation across birth cohorts in income security entitlements in Canada that arise from reforms to …-being while controlling for other factors that affect well-being over time and by age. We examine measures of income, consumption …

measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower … unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these …, there is a large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research …

their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline … of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at …

income, net affect and life satisfaction are presented, and adjusted for attenuation bias due to measurement error. Life … satisfaction is found to correlate much more strongly with income than does net affect. Components of affect that are more person …, income and many other microeconomic variables, they are probably sufficiently high to support much of the research that is …

inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …

of everyone else. According to the income comparisons model, this change in transparency can widen the gap in well … strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and … this effect relates to changes in self-perceptions of relative income. We provide back-of-the-envelope estimates of the …

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

from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at …There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … estimates suggesting that most of the association of income and well-being is causal …

result in income or health gains …

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well …