material wealth. However, money is just a narrow predictor of happiness. As a result, it's critical to figure out whether … variables other than money influence a country's happiness …

This paper attempts to explain why large cities tend to score low on indices of happiness/life satisfaction, while at …

Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the …

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 …

investigated regarding its effects on inequality and economic growth. With the advent of the scientific field of happiness research … examined empirically the relationship between welfare states and 'happiness' as more and more data have become available. This … relationship between welfare state efforts and 'happiness', the overall picture is still vague. Further research might help to add …

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 …