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 …

Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …

Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics …

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 …

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 …

-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 …

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely …-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are particularly optimistic … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is …