poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …

happiness levels across the different social strata are the same, especially among the poor and the neglected. Using data from … the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty survey in Ghana, we analyse the factors that influence happiness among the …

35.3% (dependent on measurement used), we show that EP lowers life satisfaction, with more pronounced impacts among males …

costs in terms of happiness. They therefore support the development of policies to reduce income uncertainty. …This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in … well-being and national aggregates from the World Happiness Report, the vulnerability indicator used is shown to be …