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Economic growth evens out happiness : evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 62 (2016) 3, pp. 405-419
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626646
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Early-life correlates of later-life well-being : evidence from the Wisconsin longitudinal study
Clark, Andrew E.; Lee, Tom - 2017
latter: happiness and eudaimonia. Even after controlling for proximal covariates, outcomes at age 18 (IQ score, parental …, there are notable differences in the other correlates of happiness and eudaimonia. As such, well-being policy will depend to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760110
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Early-life correlates of later-life well-being : evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
Clark, Andrew E.; Lee, Tom - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877417
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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457380
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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252278
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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2009
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914763
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Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications
Clark, Andrew E.; Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A. - HAL - 2006
positively correlated with well-being. Yet the famous Easterlin paradox shows essentially no change in average happiness at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738736
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Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2009
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738776
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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738897
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Economic Growth Evens-Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738907