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 …

sadness remains stable over most of adulthood and begins to increase in old age. In addition, the effects of age on happiness … were investigated; the cross-sectional evidence speaks for a steady decrease in happiness across age groups, but within …-person decline in happiness was only evident in old age. Together the findings provide further evidence for multidirectional age …

happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently …