-being as well as the effect of objective life circumstances using the WHO Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Our …

the interactions between human capital, productivity and health are explored. Most of the world's growth in population … raising living standards, improving health standards, and altering time allocation decisions. In most currently poor and …

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 …

, which in turn positively affects productivity and health, among other behavioral outcomes, and thereby instills a virtuous …

, in turn, would positively affect productivity and health - among other behavioral outcomes - and thereby instill a …

happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …