regarding the happiness scores. Our results do not support the 'social norm of unemployment' hypothesis that states that the …

The recent surge in analyses of subjective well-being (SWB) and the economics of happiness using large observational … stylized facts into question. This chapter explores the important contributions that happiness-in-the-lab experiments can make … distinction is made between happiness-in-the-lab experiments in which SWB is a dependent versus independent variable, and methods …

. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …

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 …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

sample of women from 35 developing countries, I find that having children increases mothers’ life satisfaction and happiness …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …

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