In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and … effects social treadmill has on life satisfaction for humans with high income. A key result of the fixed-effect-regression is …

comparison income on life satisfaction with all age groups, and many controls. However when we split the West German sample by …

large loss of satisfaction experienced by individuals in old age …

While a large body of evidence suggests that unemployment and self-reported happiness are negatively correlated, it is … not clear whether this reflects a causal effect of unemployment on happiness and whether subsidized employment can … increase the happiness of the unemployed. To close this gap, this paper estimates the causal effect of a type of subsidized …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …

We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of … results, we present a simple model where we assume that (i) Life Satisfaction is dependent from the gap between aspired and …

variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …