Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory

By Richard A. Easterlin. 2001

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Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health (2008, background): “There is a small positive relationship between income and happiness in cross-sectional analyses but virtually no relationship at all in time-series analyses (Easterlin, 2001).”
On the relations among work value orientations, psychological need satisfaction and job outcomes: A self-determination theory approach. (2007, result): “…the subjective valuation of wealth and material success would detract from positive job outcomes, we also expected, based on past research (e.g. Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999; Easterlin, 2001; Stutzer, 2004), that earning a higher income would positively relate to well-being (Hypothesis 3b).”
Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy (2008, neutral): “9 (2001), Easterlin (2001), Frey and Stutzer (2000) and Kahneman et al. (1997) (for surveys see Frey and Stutzer 2002b and Oswald 1997).”
Shareholder Wealth Maximization and Social Welfare: A Utilitarian Critique (2013, background): “Second, as people move up the prosperity ladder, their !nancial aspirations quickly come to outstrip their !nancial realities (Easterlin, 2001; Frey & Stutzer, 2002; Graham & Pettinato, 2002).”
Time and Money (2009, background): “Clark and Oswald (1994), Easterlin (2001) , Frey and Stutzer (2002), Van Praag et al. (2003) and Rode (2004).”
Does a happy destination bring you happiness? Evidence from Swiss inbound tourism (2018, background): “It has been well acknowledged in the literature that happiness, or subjective well-being, can be defined by cognitive life satisfaction and affective emotions (Easterlin, 2001, 2004, 2013; Diener, 2000; Nawijn, 2010a; Nawijn et al., 2010).”
When the Joneses’ consumption hurts : Optimal public good provision and nonlinear income taxation (2008, background): “1 See e.g. Easterlin (1995, 2001), Clark and Oswald (1996), Solnick and Hemenway (1998, 2005), van Praag and Frijters (1999), JohanssonStenman et al. (2002), Stutzer (2004), Alpizar et al. (2005), Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2005), Luttmer (2005) and Carlsson et al. (2007).”
Toward a new welfare economics for sustainability (2005, background): “Q (Dixon, 1997; Easterlin, 2001; Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Kahneman et al., 1997; Layard, 2003; Ng, 1997, 2003; Schwarz and Strack, 1999).”
The mystery of the U-shaped relationship between happiness and age (2012, background): “Where does 3If there are adaptation effects (habit formation), such as hypothesised by Easterlin (2001), then even the found coefficients from fixed-effects regressions (which are based on short-run effects) are overestimates of the true long-run effect of covariates. this strong slope come from?”
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? (2011, background): “To do so, it is necessary to review the reasons that have been put forward for what has come to be known as the “Easterlin paradox” (Easterlin, 1974, 1995, 2001).”
Can the Large Swings in Russian Life Satisfaction be Explained by Ups and Downs in Real Incomes (2006, neutral): “…2000; Frijters, 2000; Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2001; Clark et al., 2001; Di Tella et al., 2001; McBride, 2001; Ravallion and Lokshin, 2001; Easterlin, 2001; Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Shields and Wailoo, 2002; Frijters et al., 2004a, 2004b; Di Tella et al., 2003; Clark, 2003;…”