-known researchers in happiness economics and development economics, including Richard Easterlin, who gave his name to the 'Easterlin … paradox' that GDP growth does not improve happiness over the long run. Many chapters underline the difficulty of increasing …-thy-neighbour effect in happiness. Wealth comparisons in China are exacerbated by the gender imbalance, as the competition for brides …

happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …