1. Happiness in economics : the roots and perspectives of a research programme -- 2. Scitovsky's research programme on …

We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey … of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively … related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of a tenured position decreases satisfaction. However, the extent to …

/ Angus Deaton -- Valuing public goods : the life satisfaction approach. Using happiness surveys to value intangibles : the … case of airport noise / Bernard M.S. van Praag and Barbara E. Baarsma -- Valuing air quality using the life satisfaction … / Daniel Kahneman and Richard H. Thaler -- Lags and leads in life satisfaction : a test of the baseline hypothesis / Andrew E …

Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation', Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2, 139-60. -- Frey, Bruno S. and Alois …', Journal of Public Economics, 93 (3-4), 620-33. -- MacKerron, George and Susana Mourato (2009), 'Life Satisfaction and Air …. and Christopher M. Fleming (2011), 'Valuing Scenic Amenity Using Life Satisfaction Data', Ecological Economics, 72, 106 …