concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined …

This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys … (which are based directly on the scale of reported happiness) could be biased upwards if true utility is convex with respect … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small-yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …