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 …

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of having brothers as compared to having sisters on individuals' happiness … individuals' happiness. Specifically, having one more brother rather than one sister increases one's self reported happiness by 0 …

having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our … grandmothers. In contrast, grandfathers' changes in happiness do not depend on their own child's gender. This result is explained …

paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for …