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 … income and status and compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status …

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 …

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random …. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual partners. The typical American has sexual intercourse 2-3 times a month …

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 … between membership and job satisfaction is apparent in cohorts born in the 1940s and 1950s but turns positive for those born …

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 …

international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social … 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 …

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using … of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different patterns of adaptation to income across the rich and poor. We find … evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher levels of per capita income don't buy …

four percent decline in household income. We also find evidence indicating that job security is an important channel for …

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