In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …

, exploring the relationship between daily activities and feelings of happiness, stress, and meaningfulness. We analyze the entire … assessments, immigrants are more optimistic and perceive these activities as associated with higher levels of happiness and … meaningfulness. The study also finds evidence of emotional assimilation over time, with happiness disparities between immigrants and …

Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …

self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well …

self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well … substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …

-benefit analysis ; life satisfaction ; happiness …

-being. This result has some potential to help to unify disciplines. -- Happiness ; well-being ; compensating differentials …