Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective … well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …

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

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 …

). While a number of empirical studies demonstrate that higher religiosity is associated with higher happiness at the level of …

Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness …

Using the happiness survey data, a robust body of literature has supported that people's subjective well-being is … related to economic growth, employment, and inflation. Motivated by "Happiness Economics," this paper focuses on financial …