economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300 …. Independent longitudinal data corroborate the finding, showing that happiness is predictive of future motor vehicle accidents. Our …

economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300 …. Independent longitudinal data corroborate the finding, showing that happiness is predictive of future motor vehicle accidents. Our … preferences ; seatbelt usage ; vehicle accidents ; subjective well-being ; happiness …

economics. We provide the first evidence of a powerful connection between happiness and risk-avoidance. Using data on 300 …. Independent longitudinal data corroborate the finding, showing that happiness is predictive of future motor vehicle accidents. Our …

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 …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

Increasing happiness of population as the ultimate goal has engaged economist’s interest in identifying, measuring and … theorizing based on the amount of influence of effective components on happiness. What makes this paper remarkable in contrast to … happiness is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with latent variables. Results do not confirm presence of the Easterlin paradox …