Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or …

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

This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in … well-being and national aggregates from the World Happiness Report, the vulnerability indicator used is shown to be … statistically significant for happiness perceptions at both the individual and aggregate levels. At the micro level, the economic …

Although there is a growing interest in subjective well-being (SWB) and its determinants, the extent of socioeconomic … inequalities in SWB has not yet been analyzed. This study assesses socioeconomic inequalities in SWB in twelve European countries … inequalities in SWB, with SWB being concentrated among individuals with higher socioeconomic status. Of the countries studied, the …