This paper attempts to explain the conceptual connections between happiness and well-being. It first distinguishes … episodic happiness from happiness in the personal attribute sense. It then evaluates two recent proposals about the connection … between happiness and well-being: (1) the idea that episodic happiness and well-being both have the same fundamental …

distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …

, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on … includes self-reported happiness and mental well-being measures, with contemporaneous local air quality and weather information … according to the exact date of interview, we show that worse air quality reduces shorter-term hedonic happiness and increases …