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 …

show that the observed income effect on subjective well-being is much weaker for the happiness index than for life … (3) the relationship between income and the happiness index is weak and stable over the whole distribution when basic … countries show results consistent with the previous literature. Analysis of the happiness index - a measure of hedonic well …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … and living in misery) and for men and women. The agerelated changes in the importance of income and social relationships …

(health, social life, income, education) over the quantiles of the subjective well-being distribution, with attenuated effect … sizes for the fixed-effects model. Equivalized log income has a negative impact on subjective well-being throughout the …

Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests … variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …

Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests … variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …

income, demographics and social capital. The increase in social capital predicts the largest positive change in subjective … well-being. Income growth, also predicts a substantial change in subjective well-being, but it is compensated for about … three fourths by the joint negative predictions due to income comparison and income adaptation. Finally, we find that aging …