direct experience of burglary and robbery, using micro-level happiness data from Japan. I find that the direct experience of … burglary significantly reduces victims’ reported happiness. In monetary terms, being burglarized is as bad as losing … approximately $35,000–$52,500. This paper also tests for heterogeneous effects of victimization on happiness. Happiness of the …

carers had poorer health and well-being, reported less happiness with their lives, were more likely to be bullied at school …

This paper attempts to explain the conceptual connections between happiness and well-being. It first distinguishes … episodic happiness from happiness in the personal attribute sense. It then evaluates two recent proposals about the connection … between happiness and well-being: (1) the idea that episodic happiness and well-being both have the same fundamental …