consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With …

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

Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness …-shaped relation between status and happiness. The same trend is much less pronounced in data on 1000 individuals living in the state …

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

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 …

This paper focuses on two issues of subjective well-being: (1) the relative advantage of using either happiness or life … is better explained by the same variables as happiness. The explanatory power of the Estonian equations is lower compared …