The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the … last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study … combines the latest data to examine the relationship between top income share and different dimensions of subjective well …

Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective … well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people … freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to …

sensitivity of income estimates used in valuation. We address the endogeneity issue by decomposing wellbeing losses into those … relative who had not had an accident. We use of the Fixed Effects Filtered (FEF) estimator to enable the permanent income … coefficient to be estimated free from individual fixed effects bias. This estimate is used instead of the transient income effect …

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 …

There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well …