Happiness research has been a great success by yielding new and important insights. These results are often used in a … aggregated. In particular, competition between parties is a prerequisite for the insights from happiness research put to the …

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research … happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income …, unemployment and inflation affect happiness as well as how institutional factors, in particular the type of democracy and the …

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This …' subsequent research activity and status compared to a synthetic control group of nonrecipient scholars with similar previous … research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …