A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only … self-assessed discrete happiness data have been used for research into the determinants of happiness. However, distribution …

typical Tullock Challenges. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second …

happiness in a large Dutch internet panel survey. We find that slower responses and higher cognitive effort reduce reported … happiness. Moreover, in multivariate happiness equations, these factors moderate the estimated effect of income on happiness …, while no interaction effects are found for other determinants of happiness. As a consequence, relative marginal effects may …