sadness remains stable over most of adulthood and begins to increase in old age. In addition, the effects of age on happiness … were investigated; the cross-sectional evidence speaks for a steady decrease in happiness across age groups, but within …-person decline in happiness was only evident in old age. Together the findings provide further evidence for multidirectional age …

Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness … happiness. Analyses of responses by future non-respondents substantiate this finding and shed light on a key question for …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering a …

activities which is not explicit in Sen's original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A … some cases the association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children …

locations. Using happiness data from the German socio-economic panel this paper empirically tests whether regional utility …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys … (which are based directly on the scale of reported happiness) could be biased upwards if true utility is convex with respect … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small-yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …