of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … national income; each doubling of income is associated with a near one point increase in life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline …

explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to …

There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at … random. To probe the validity of these assumptions, I compare estimates for life satisfaction with those for job satisfaction …

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in … about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear …

result in income or health gains …

We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … income and status and compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status …) during the four years following an income (status) change. In the short-run (current year) a one standard deviation increase …

of everyone else. According to the income comparisons model, this change in transparency can widen the gap in well … it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of … this effect relates to changes in self-perceptions of relative income. We provide back-of-the-envelope estimates of the …

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 …, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases …

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

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 …This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect …