between migrants and urban residents-affects individual happiness. The main results are as follows. First, migrants suffer … migrants, and they also favor higher relative income among urban residents. Fourth, 'born?urban residents have lower happiness …

The nexus between income and happiness is very much disputed. Many cross-sectional studies see a positive relationship …, most longitudinal studies don't. Starting from the fact that the theoretical basis in happiness research has been …

How globalization affects happiness is highly disputed. Several studies use an index that amalgamates globalization … former to slightly depress happiness, the latter to significantly promote happiness. Segmentation of WVS-data shows that the …

employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world. …

We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income … levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but … not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our …

-monotonic form. Our results suggest that the impact of working hours on happiness is rather small and exhibits an inverse U-shape. We …

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline-level reduces …

examine the impact of migration on the happiness of the family left behind. We use the propensity score matching estimator to … take into account the endogeneity of migration. Our results indicate that migration reduces the happiness of those left … behind. We also find that the monetary inflows (remittances) that accompany migration do not increase happiness levels among …

findings in happiness regressions, such as a negative but u-shaped age effect, positive influences of education and relative …