associated with lower levels of both life satisfaction and happiness, especially when the commute times are extreme (≥ 1 hour per … day). A multiple mediation analysis further indicates that the relation between commute time and happiness is partially …

concentrations of ethnic minority populations. We also explore one consequence of coresidency, reported happiness. We find that … of happiness, we find again that socioeconomic and demographic conditions matter, as does ethnicity. Controlling all else …, coresidency increases the happiness of the elderly by about 28 percent. Moreover, the unobserved characteristics that drive …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …