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 …

an economic analysis of happiness are shown and illustrated with two specific applications. The relationship between … the value of public goods. The short discussion of governmental ?happiness policy? from a constitutional viewpoint … suggests a comparative institutional analysis of subjective well-being. The happiness revolution in economics is only at its …

an economic analysis of happiness are shown and illustrated with two specific applications. The relationship between … the value of public goods. The short discussion of governmental „happiness policy“ from a constitutional viewpoint … suggests a comparative institutional analysis of subjective well-being. The happiness revolution in economics is only at its …

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 …-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for …

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 …

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 …

Based on three large panel surveys, this paper shows that happiness gaps between spouses are a good predictor of future … divorce. The effect of happiness gaps is asymmetric: couples are more likely to break-up when the woman is the less happy … asymmetry suggests that the effect of happiness gaps is grounded on motives of relative deprivation (i.e. comparisons of …