-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

We state the following hypotheses: 1) Happiness depends on social rank – a term from primatology meaning the place in … boost happiness of all. 3) Intelligence is a happiness- boosting tool, which should be more developed by low …

This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or well- being). We estimate … results suggest that family background explains, on average, between 30% and 60% of the inequality in permanent well …

This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or wellbeing). We estimate sibling … that family background explains, on average, between 30% and 60% of the inequality in permanent wellbeing. The influence is …

happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We … investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits …, we find that happiness extends life expectancy. 10 percent increase in happiness decreases probability of death by four …

This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio …-Economic Panel. Exploiting the unexplained cross-sectional variation in individual happiness (residuals) in 1984 to eliminate the … neighborhood, and extend more help to others. Residual happiness appears to be an indicator of optimism, and has an inverse U …

I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the … Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest …

relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the … years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect of inequality measured by the sample gini coefficient by year and … suggest that even though inequality and risk aversion are related, they are not the same thing. The paper shows that the …

happiness: other profiles, such as health and family life, are more important. In this paper we want to ascertain whether some …-South economic gap, the quick process of population aging, and the corruption in public administrations impact on personal happiness. …