Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are … artifact. Some analysts assert that in less developed countries happiness and economic growth are positively related "up to … initial level, life satisfaction has not improved. -- happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; income ; long …

material aspirations via fostering relative concerns in the society. The empirical findings shed further light on the income-happiness …

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 …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or …

findings in happiness regressions, such as a negative but u-shaped age effect, positive influences of education and relative …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …