wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model … in happiness data regarding whether males are happier than females but find little variation by month in unhappiness data … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …

highly significant interactions. Results are presented for life evaluations and (in some surveys) for happiness yesterday, in …

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is … large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research well …

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 … inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline …

of happiness. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), we examine whether households who contribute to a … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for …

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 …

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