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 income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual partners. The typical American has sexual intercourse 2-3 times a month …

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 …

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 … it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …

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

allow for nonlinear effects in income, show the value of avoiding pain ranging between 56 to 145 USD per day. These results … are lower than previously reported, suggesting that the value of pain relief varies by income levels. Thus, previous … estimates of the value of pain relief assuming constant monetary compensation for pain across income levels are heavily affected …

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 …

of adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at … their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy. Average happiness is strongly related to per capita … national income; each doubling of income is associated with a near one point increase in life satisfaction on a scale from 0 to …

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 …