Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
unwound. Juxtaposing these changes with large rises in income inequality suggests an important role for non-pecuniary factors …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … eroded, and the gender happiness gap has disappeared entirely. Paralleling changes in the income distribution, differences in …