In his book “The Politics of Happiness” Derek Bok argues that happiness should be a goal in public policy. He presents … an inventory of social problems in the US with negative effects on happiness, like inadequate education, chronic pain … deal with these problems. He also pays attention to some more general happiness-issues for US-policymakers, like the …

“Exploring happiness”, published in 2010, she explains why she finds happiness unfit to be included. She observes that there are … discordant claims about what happiness is. Any particular vision can lead to practical choices that either adhere or violate the … values she prefers. In my view subjective happiness should be included, because there are no discordant claims about the …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within … goods helps to explain this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylised fact arguably comes as a bonus to the Easterlin …

This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence …. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle … contrast, immigrants are not less happy in France than they are elsewhere in Europe, but their happiness fall with the passage …

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

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 …