satisfaction (LS) and study the potential effects from ignoring it. Our dataset comes from Wave 3 of the UK Understanding Society …

happiness data, for which no natural cardinal scale exists, and which is thus routinely collected by ordinal response. With … applications featuring ordered outcomes, including responses to happiness surveys, researchers may wish to study the impact of a …

Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews …, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life satisfaction could equally well be consequences, or …). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …

The nexus between income and happiness is very much disputed. Many cross-sectional studies see a positive relationship …, most longitudinal studies don't. Starting from the fact that the theoretical basis in happiness research has been … findings establish the income-satiation hypothesis of longitudinal studies also in cross-sectional perspective. -- Happiness …

nations. Using gross bilateral international migration flows and a discrete choice model in which everyone in the world …

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …