African countries, but modest gains for Northern Europe. -- Climate ; climate change ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; survey …

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 …

-term positive association between the growth of happiness and income, arising from fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions, with …There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per … the long-term relationship, which is nil. -- Happiness ; economic growth ; developing countries ; transition countries …

freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to …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 …

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income … inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …, using a number of assumptions, we are able to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income. We obtain …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …

This paper explores the relationship between global wealth and happiness. We employ a bivariate generalized … autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity framework for global wealth and happiness represented, respectively, by FTSE All … happiness significantly mitigate wealth volatility, and daily wealth returns positively affect the changes in happiness …