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 …

threat of infringement can actually be beneficial to the patentholder. We compare the two doctrines of damages under the …

current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important …

to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within … goods helps to explain this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylised fact arguably comes as a bonus to the Easterlin …