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 … this effect relates to changes in self-perceptions of relative income. We provide back-of-the-envelope estimates of the …

emotions such as enjoyment and happiness. They are also less likely to report a range of negative experiences, like sadness … explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to …

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

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 …

inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …

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 … higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower for the unemployed …

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 adults from 132 countries. I analyze the data on life satisfaction (happiness) and on health satisfaction and look at …

We study "habituation" 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 "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long-run (five year average) a one …

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 …, income and many other microeconomic variables, they are probably sufficiently high to support much of the research that is …

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 …