Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1 …,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This … is the ‘Easterlin Paradox’ – the finding that self-reported happiness does not always appear to grow in tandem with …

-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to … expansion experienced in the US in a non-growing happiness flow exhibit extremely high levels of adaptation that are not … can be explained by changes in the income distribution and the concavity of the happiness function. Since 1975 in the …

narratives that featured in children’s television programs and movies. This study argues that a toy story’s character personality …

Verbrauchsmengen und Nutzen besteht. Dieses als Paradox der Zufriedenheit (happiness paradox) bezeichnete Ph?nomen wird damit erkl …Happiness research uses data on self-reported satisfaction to measure individuals? utilities. First empirical evidence … (happiness paradox). Explanations for the paradox refer to processes of social comparison and adaptation. Thus, the self …