It is commonly claimed in the recent happiness literature in psychology and economics that we have proved diminishing … function and concavity of the reporting function. -- happiness ; money ; marginal utility ; curvature ; concave …

It is commonly claimed in the recent happiness literature in psychology and economics that we have proved diminishing …

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 …

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 …

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

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

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

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

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …