distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …

autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …

Happiness measures, reflecting individuals’ well-being, have received increasing attention by policy makers. Policies … could target absolute happiness levels when aiming at increasing a society’s well-being. But given upper bounds of happiness … measures, as well as the possibilities of decreasing returns to happiness resources, we argue that an important measure of …

progressed to a point where measures of subjective well-being (or: happiness) can usefully be employed to assess the welfare …

Bad health decreases individuals' happiness, but few studies measure the impact of specific illnesses. We apply … a more detailed account of how bad health influences happiness than accounts focusing on how bad self-assessed health …

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