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 …

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 … this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering a …

-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 …

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 a …

-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 …

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

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

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 …