A puzzle for adaptive theory

By Richard A. Easterlin. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges (2008, unknown): “Easterlin (2001, 2003, 2005) argues that adaptation is generally incomplete, namely, that people do not merely automatically bounce back to a baseline level of happiness.”
Education as a Positional Good: A Life Satisfaction Approach (2011, background): “Empirical studies on how aspirations raise with increased income tend to estimate an elasticity close to one, suggesting that greater aspirations will offset the effects of higher income on wellbeing (Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Easterlin, 2005).”
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society (2012, background): “For instance, in the case of the US Easterlin (2005) found that there was a positive and commensurate relationship between the number of consumer durables desired and possessed by a cohort over time, and that the proportion of a cohort reporting to have 'a lot of money' stayed fairly constant over…”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “Easterlin ( 2005 ) has shown, for example, that relative to aspirations for material goods, people’s desires for happy marriages and children do not decline as they successfully attain them.”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “As might be imagined, there is only relatively little work here, as it is difficult to know how to accurately measure income aspirations.25 Easterlin (2005b) uses direct measures of aspirations to show that material aspirations (the big-ticket consumer items that make up the good life) seem 25…”
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis (2008, unknown): “Easterlin (2005) takes a different approach, and shows that aspirations regarding marriage and children do not seem to adapt totally to circumstances, so that adaptation in these domains is necessarily only incomplete at best.”
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, unknown): “19 to accurately measure income aspirations.13 Easterlin (2005b) uses direct measures to show that material aspirations (the big-ticket consumer items that make up the good life) seem to increase in line with ownership of such consumer items.”
Income and Happiness Across Europe: Do Reference Values Matter? (2009, background): “Interestingly, Easterlin (2005) also finds that aspirations about economic wealth and other pecuniary aspects of one’s well-being tend to change with the level of actual circumstances, suggesting almost complete adaptation.2 Clark et al. (2006) provide a comprehensive and insightful review of the…”