actual risk-taking behaviour (both studies) and with the Big Five personality measure (gathered prior to study 1); and the …

-consistent personality and environment. We explain when stressors reduce income. We also explain under which conditions rising income does …

We develop a theoretical model that jointly explains optimal choices and happiness. We work with constant elasticity of … substitution functions for utility and happiness. Employing a choice framework, individuals are confronted with two options. When … there exists a trade-off, we determine parametric conditions for which individual happiness and utility coincide as well as …

and cohabitation/family/children simultaneously. Considering different birth cohorts and generations of West German women …

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline-level reduces …