happiness. It is argued in this paper that an overall "happiness effect" is not very informative because of the presumably large … their life will be best this way, and their happiness therefore tells us little about how happy their more fertile … the fertility-happiness research. In addition, there is a more "standard" selection problem: factors with implications for …

U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … SWB data from the U.S. Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index and income inequality data from the American Community Survey …-dependent and measure-dependent: income inequality is SWB-diminishing in large regions for all measures, SWB-diminishing in small …

A large number of empirical studies have investigated the link between social status and happiness, yet in …

) is more relevant for individual happiness of middle class members. The aggregate income vulnerability of the middle class … costs in terms of happiness. They therefore support the development of policies to reduce income uncertainty. …This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in …

We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income … could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income … subjective well-being (SWB) data from the U.S. Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and geographically-based median-income data …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …