Does Happiness Pay? An Exploration Based on Panel Data from Russia

By Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, Sandip Sukhtankar. 2004

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Subfields: Health, Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology

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Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence (2018, background): “In other words, people who report being happy at an earlier time point obtain higher incomes at a later time point (Diener et al., 2002; Graham, Eggers, & Sukhtankar, 2004; Marks & Fleming, 1999; Staw et al., 1994).”
Valuing scenic amenity using life satisfaction data (2011, background): “Many studies have found that happiness is greater for those who are more religious (cf. Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004b; Graham et al., 2004).”
A Scientific Review of the Remarkable Benefits of Happiness for Successful and Healthy Living (2013, background): “, 2010) and future income (Diener, Nickerson et al., 2002; Graham et al., 2004; Marks & Fleming, 1999).”
Positive predictors of teacher effectiveness (2009, unknown): “Life satisfaction, which is related to and highly correlated with positive affect, has not been as extensively studied as a predictor of achievement, but at least one large, prospective longitudinal study has established its predictive validity for income ( Graham, Eggers, & Sukhtankar, 2004 ).”
Mental Health of Parents and Life Satisfaction of Children: A Within-Family Analysis of Intergenerational Transmission of Well-Being (2008, unknown): “…not least because of their impact on subsequent material success and wealth (Blanden et al., 2006; Heckman & Rubinstein, 2001; Murnane et al., 1995), as well as future earnings (Graham et al, 2004), health and other social and economic behaviors (Clark, 2001; Palmore, 1969; Sales & House, 1971).”
Un)Happiness in Transition (2009, methodology): “For example, Senik (2004) uses panel data on Russia to confirm the validity of the “tunnel effect” introduced in Hirschman and Rotchild (1973): high earnings of others may provide information on opportunities and therefore increase happiness.”
Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2019, methodology): “…affect, we follow a methodology proposed in the labor and happiness economics literatures (e.g., Cummins & Nistico, 2002; Dawson, 2017; Graham et al., 2004; Guven, 2011; Krause, 2013) by estimating fixed-effects panel regressions for PA and NA of the following form: Affectit = ∑ k δk…”
Reversing the Question: Does Happiness Affect Consumption and Savings Behavior? (2012, unknown): “[14] Graham, C.”
Putting a price tag on friends, relatives, and neighbours: Using surveys of life satisfaction to value social relationships (2008, background): “This is consistent with the recent findings that happy people are more productive and thus are more likely to earn higher incomes than unhappy people (see Graham et al, 2004).”