, approximately 500,000 individuals. It checks that the key results are not due to cohort effects. Nor do we rely on simple life-satisfaction …

behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … threshold. Notably, retirement manifests significant gender heterogeneity in its influence on life satisfaction, leading to an … multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health …

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 …

, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …

monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the change is the deterioration in young people's mental health both …

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 …

higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …