(including drug trafficking and corruption) around the world. The paper then documents a negative (positive) correlation between … measures of criminal activity and happiness and measures of positive (negative) emotions. The paper also studies the …

We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and … standard deviation in income are associated with similar increases in happiness. In the long-run (five year average) a one …

living in six Argentine cities. While no relationship is found between happiness and victimization experiences, a correlation …