The Origins of Happiness

Chapter 1 it possible to identify its average effect on all those children, each parent had only one child in the sample. Howeve ...

Happiness over the Life Course So much for the determinants of outcomes at age 16. But childhood is an ongoing experience. It is ...

Chapter 1 If we go back to childhood and ask what is the best predictor of an enjoyable adult life, the best predic- tor is th ...

PART ONE What Makes a Happy Adult? ...

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2 Income Wealth is like seawater. The more we drink, the thirstier we become. — Schopenhauer Does more money buy more happiness? ...

Chapter 2 from 0 to 10. This reflects a major purpose of this book— to encourage people to think of well- being as a concrete en ...

Income Life- Satisfaction Our first empirical analysis uses data from the British Co- hort Study (BCS), which covers people born ...

Chapter 2 income varies greatly with income. In fact the gain in hap- piness is inversely proportional to income. So when a poor ...

30 20 10 0 0 Pe rcen t £ (2012 prices) 3,000 22,000 160,000 Figure 2.1. The distribution of individuals aged 34 and 42 by annual ...

Chapter 2 satisfaction (thus measured) on log income and nothing else beyond age and gender, we are estimating the relationship ...

Income mediating variables should not be included in the equa- tion. It would be nice if we could say how far the other factors ...

Chapter 2 and the next two chapters we confine the analysis to people of working age (aged under 65 but above 25). The results a ...

Income There are always problems of measurement error and tim- ing here, and the truth probably lies somewhere between the cross ...

Chapter 2 This is the paradox first identified by Richard Easterlin as long ago as the 1970s.^17 The paradox contrasts two styli ...

Income to income that may be at work, and both of these were men- tioned in Easterlin’s original article. He hypothesized that t ...

Chapter 2 a person’s happiness is the same whatever their in- come, once they have experienced it long enough. However there can ...

Income their job if they knew the site existed (and thus their col- leagues’ salaries) than if they did not. There is now a majo ...

Chapter 2 At this point, one might of course ask: Does everyone care equally strongly about how much other people have? Or do th ...

Income As expected, all the coefficient sizes are reduced, but social comparisons dominate adaptation in both Britain and Ger- m ...