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

of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment …

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic … increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical … happiness. We derive a simple test of whether reversals are possible by relabelling the scores of reported happiness and deduce …

over the world currently use ad hoc methods. -- disability ; adaptation ; happiness ; legal compensation ; wellbeing ; GHQ …

it, or replacing it. This chapter portrays some of these new measures and puts them to a "happiness test": compared to … data for 34 OECD societies, we can show that from a happiness perspective, there is-surprisingly-little wrong with the GDP …. In sum, the chapter demonstrates that a happiness perspective can add important insights along the way to facilitate the …

hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data according to exact dates and locations of … happiness. By holding happiness constant, we calculate the tradeoff between the reduction in particulate matter and income …, essentially a happiness-based measure of willingness-to-pay for mitigating air pollution. We find that people on average are …