over the world currently use ad hoc methods. -- disability ; adaptation ; happiness ; legal compensation ; wellbeing ; GHQ … paper suggests ways to calculate the level of compensatory damages for the pain and suffering from disablement. Courts all …

In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …

applies each to large cross-sections and compares the patterns of life-satisfaction and happiness. Using the first method …

; happiness ; geography ; GHQ ; Easterlin Paradox ; mental health ; depression ; life course …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys … (which are based directly on the scale of reported happiness) could be biased upwards if true utility is convex with respect … to reported happiness. We find some evidence of such bias, but it is small-yielding a new estimated elasticity of 1 …

. -- Body mass index BMI ; comparisons ; imitation ; happiness ; peer effects ; dieting ; mental health ; well-being ; obesity …