controlling for the rate of unemployment and per capita GDP. The character of poverty as a public bad suggests that poverty …

is examined in the setting of Slovak Roma, who are poor in comparison to the non-Roma population. The results suggest … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …-income group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only … self-assessed discrete happiness data have been used for research into the determinants of happiness. However, distribution …

of individual welfare according to which welfare is a matter of mental states rather than preference satisfaction. For …

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered … happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey …

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered … happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey …

Cross-disciplinary 'happiness research' has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This … development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we … postulate that the appropriate approach is not to maximize aggregate happiness in seeking to improve outcomes by direct policy …