freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to … human well-being and the phenomenon of adaptation. Many challenges, of course, remain. First, we are only at the beginning … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … of adaptation within a poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. We cannot … identify any causes of poverty entry which are unambiguously associated with adaptation to poverty. …

We investigate adaptation of subjective well-being using a randomised controlled trial. We find that providing medical … of adaptation is supported by observations of changes in reference levels and is robust to alternative estimation methods …