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 …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

The striking thing about the happiness-income paradox is that over the long-term - usually a period of 10 y or more … - happiness does not increase as a country's income rises. Heretofore the evidence for this was limited to developed countries …. This article presents evidence that the long term nil relationship between happiness and income holds also for a number of …

-being. Moreover, we expect that life satisfaction of people in developing countries is determined differently than life satisfaction … the effects on life satisfaction exist. Important differences are found for example regarding the income variables. We …

countries do poorly. -- Human development ; quality of life ; happiness ; capabilities ; country behavior …

Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic … growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective … sectional relation of happiness to GDP per capita. The point-of-time comparison leads to the expectation that the same absolute …