-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random … sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations … greater effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in … variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … relative increase in the probability of blacks going to college; and ii) a similar convergence in relative earnings that is …

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and … it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …