Life cycle happiness and its sources: Intersections of psychology, economics, and demography

By Richard A. Easterlin. 2006

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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Income and Quality of Life: Does the Love of Money Make a Difference? (2007, background): “Researchers have defined the love of money as (1) one’s wants, desires, values and ‘‘aspirations’’ of money (Easterlin, 2006), (2) one’s attitudes toward money, (3) one’s meaning of money, (4) not one’s needs, greed (Sloan, 2002), or materialism (Belk, 1985; Richins and Rudmin, 1994), (5) a multidim”
Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being (2011, background): “Considering the emerging findings, it appears that happiness is shaped by both psychological factors and life circumstances (Easterlin, 2006b).”
An integrated model of financial well-being: The role of financial behavior (2021, background): “Easterlin (2006) examines the relationship between happiness and overall satisfaction for four life domains (finance, family, health, and work) and discovers that financial satisfaction contributed the most to overall happiness than other satisfaction domains.”
Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data (2009, background): “First, rising levels of financial satisfaction, satisfaction with material needs, and satisfaction with human relationships may contribute to an increase in overall life satisfaction (Diener & Suh, 1997; Easterlin, 2006).”
Disentangling the housing satisfaction puzzle: Does homeownership really matter? (2009, methodology): “However, this issue has also become relevant in economics research and studies aiming at estimating the determinants of individuals’ well-being (see e.g. Campbell et al., 1976; Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Stutzer, 2004; Easterlin, 2006).”
Leisure Time, Leisure Activities, and Happiness in China (2015, methodology): “The happiness equation was estimated with ordered logit regression extracted from Blanchflower and Oswald (2004) and Easterlin (2006).”
Income and Happiness Across Europe: Do Reference Values Matter? (2009, background): “The effect of recent unemployment (in the past 12 8 For a review of the factors that affect subjective well-being over the life cycle see Easterlin (2006).”
Retirement and Subjective Well-Being (2011, background): “Finkelstein et al. (2009), among others, argue that subjective reports on well-being are a good proxy for utility.”
A developmental model of financial capability (2013, background): “…in each area of life may be assessed differently (for example, one might assess career-related well-being as high while at the same time assessing relationship-related wellbeing as low), greater satisfaction within each domain contributes to increased overall well-being (Easterlin, 2006).”
Household finances and well-being in Australia: An empirical analysis of comparison effects☆ (2016, background): “For example, Easterlin (2006), Layard (2006) and Van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2007) find that financial satisfaction, amongst other domains, is an important determinant of overall life satisfaction.”
Competence, Confidence, and Gender: The Role of Objective and Subjective Financial Knowledge in Household Finance (2020, neutral): “2010; Easterlin 2006; Hojman et al.”
Financial satisfaction over the life course: The influence of assets and liabilities (2011, positive): “…have shown to what extent short-term or long-term changes in well-being occur after important life events, including changes in marital status such as marriage (Lucas et al., 2003; Zimmermann and Easterlin, 2006), divorce (Lucas, 2005; Gardner and Oswald, 2006), and widowhood (Lucas et al., 2003).”
Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany (2010, methodology): “Easterlin, R. (2006). Life Cycle Happiness and Its Sources: Intersections of Psychology, Economics, and Demograhpy. In: Journal of Economic Psychology, 27, 463-482 Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A. & Frijters, P. (2004). How Important Is Methodology for the Estimates of the Determinants of Happiness? In: Econo”
Well-Being across America (2011, neutral): “Contrary to the American data in Easterlin (2006) and Glenn (2009), it is not necessary first to control for endogenous variables such as education or marriage or income.”