Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et … Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest happiness levels occurring during middle age (Easterlin, 2006 … and cohorteffects. Secondly, all empirical research lacks a theoretical explanation as to why age affects happiness. The …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …

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 a …

‘happiness’, we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … European happiness because of their lower social mobility (since no preference for equality exists amongst the rich or the …

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972 …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s …. There have been large changes in the level of happiness across groups: Two-thirds of the black-white happiness gap has been …

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 …