children on mothers' physical condition, as proxied by their weight. Using two independent datasets, I find that, many years … first-born sons. This weight gap emerges around the time that the first-born child is in his or her pre-teen years and is … largest during the child's teen years. I find indirect evidence that this gender weight gap is associated with bargaining …

individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest …

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

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys … (which are based directly on the scale of reported happiness) could be biased upwards if true utility is convex with respect … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small-yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys … (which are based directly on the scale of reported happiness) could be biased upwards if true utility is convex with respect … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small - yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …

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

autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different Big Five personality traits. Personality …

time horizon of fifteen years using the BHPS data set for Great Britain, measuring individual well-being in functionings …

autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …-being ; happiness ; vector autoregressions ; SOEP ; personality traits …