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 …

Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status) during the four years …

subjective well-being differ greatly among countries. Life satisfaction scores for immigrants to Canada from up to 100 source …, the average levels and distributions of life satisfaction scores among immigrants mimic those of other Canadians rather …

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

denial of mortality-relevant information interact with intertemporal choices and may lead to time-inconsistent behavior and … other "behavioral" phenomena. In the model, repression of signals of mortality leads to underconsumption for unsophisticated … to act according to one's mortality prospects as currently perceived. We show that the mere possibility of engaging in …