happiness research in economics. A dataset of 154 Benedictine nuns is analyzed. The main objective is to identify the most … important determinants of happiness of Benedictines and to empirically evaluate the hypothesis that they have very high …

happiness. Using a cross-sectional multi-country dataset with 57 thousand observations from 29 European countries, we show that … unhappiness varies a great deal more across social groups than (high levels of) happiness does. Our findings are robust to several … alternative specifications, using both self-reported life satisfaction and self-reported happiness, and different cut-off points …

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer … utility are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline …

effect on happiness. Specifically legal security and property rights, access to sound money, and freedom from excessive …