In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only … self-assessed discrete happiness data have been used for research into the determinants of happiness. However, distribution …

happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader … in subjective well-being and income over time within countries we find economic growth associated with rising happiness … determining happiness. …

happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader … in subjective well-being and income over time within countries we find economic growth associated with rising happiness … determining happiness. …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …