the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …

of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …

Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or …