-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an …

Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …

to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced … contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering …