This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or well- being). We estimate …

This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or wellbeing). We estimate sibling …

Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness …-shaped relation between status and happiness. The same trend is much less pronounced in data on 1000 individuals living in the state …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …

. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …

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 …

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 …