In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering …

use information from the World Values Survey about subjective happiness and life satisfaction. We relate this information …-being ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; religiosity ; U-shaped relationship … between personal well-being and religiosity, especially so for happiness. This result is consistent throughout all our …

The empirical relation between happiness and religiosity is considered from the perspective of basic utility theory. An … unbalanced cross-country panel data set is used to study whether religiosity can be considered as a substitute in the happiness … function, which itself is held to be a proxy for the utility function. We find that the same level of happiness can be …