In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …

Economics has rediscovered happiness even though the discipline has always been about human wellbeing. A growing …. Thus, there are concerted efforts to measure happiness and design policies to enhance it. Happiness metrics rank North … deliver on economic expectations that are surprisingly similar for both groups. Insights from happiness economics and models …

Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of … observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that comparing the mean of ordinal data is only valid under … studies in the economics of happiness literature have been futile. In order to salvage some of the prior results and avoid …

In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …

In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …

Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of … observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that com-paring the mean of ordinal data is only valid under … studies in the economics of happiness literature have been futile. In order to salvage some of the prior results and avoid …

-being was the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote … received wisdom, income inequality accounts for only two percent or less of the variance in happiness across the population …; the critical factors affecting a person's happiness are their relationships and their mental and physical health. More …