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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822578
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136431
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 39 (2008) 1 (Spring), pp. 1-102
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001873
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2021
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325055
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Happiness inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268827
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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084669
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Is Business Cycle Volatility Costly? Evidence from Surveys of Subjective Wellbeing
Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
-reported happiness and life satisfaction. I find robust evidence that high inflation and, to a greater extent, unemployment lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710864
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292799
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293197
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Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is there any Evidence of Satiation?
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293982