Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from … this literature is that people exhibit a baseline happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have … shown that genes play a significant role in explaining the variance of baseline happiness between individuals. However …

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972 …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s …. There have been large changes in the level of happiness across groups: Two-thirds of the black-white happiness gap has been …

In the United States happiness, on average, varies positively with socio-economic status; is fairly constant over time … happiness can be predicted rather closely from the mean satisfaction people report with each of four domains – finances, family … happiness, they come together in a way that explains quite well the overall patterns of happiness. The importance of any given …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …

economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300 …. Independent longitudinal data corroborate the finding, showing that happiness is predictive of future motor vehicle accidents. Our …