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 …

Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance … between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in national levels of life satisfaction can largely be accounted by a small … number of socio-economic indicators. Life satisfaction is lowest in poor, corrupt countries where income inequality is …