We replicate nine key results from the happiness literature: the Easterlin Paradox, the ‘U-shaped' relation between … happiness and age, the happiness trade-off between inflation and unemployment, cross-country comparisons of happiness, the … impact of the Moving to Opportunity program on happiness, the impact of marriage and children on happiness, the ‘paradox' of …

We show that, without strong auxiliary assumptions, it is impossible to rank groups by average happiness using survey …-to-Opportunity increases happiness, men have become happier relative to women, and an Easterlin paradox exists depends on whether happiness is …

policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …

their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … most with additional time spent with spouse. Among singles, satisfaction decreases most as more time is spent alone … happiness may have been increased compared to before the lock-downs; but sufficiently large losses of work time and income …

wellbeing including life satisfaction and happiness, several macro variables and various measures of trust. Union members are … union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the …

living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a quot;happiness equationquot; defined over several lags of …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 …

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction/happiness. Using five data sets, from the U.S., Canada … additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.12 among women. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly effects …, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow placing lower bounds on the effects of …

and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …