eroded, and the gender happiness gap has disappeared entirely. Paralleling changes in the income distribution, differences in … unwound. Juxtaposing these changes with large rises in income inequality suggests an important role for non-pecuniary factors …

picture than either measure on its own. Second, we find strong evidence for the importance of both income and social context … effects of a few measures of the social and institutional context are as large as those of income in explaining both … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …

explained by paternal bias against daughters, by parental age, education, income, ethnicity, or by year of observation, and was …

income and living standards, we do not know how these scale economies change over time. I use American household expenditure …

the relationship between subject well-being and income observed within countries. Finally, examining the relationship … between changes in subjective well-being and income over time within countries we find economic growth associated with rising … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income …