Rising Happiness in Nations 1946–2004: A Reply to Easterlin

By R. Veenhoven, M. Hagerty. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology

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The Relationships Between Life Satisfaction, Happiness, and Current Mood (2012, methodology): “In previous research happiness has been measured by different versions of a single rating scale (Veenhoven & Hagerty, 2006), for instance “Taking all together, how would you say things are these days.”
Is the Study of Happiness a Worthy Scientific Pursuit? (2008, methodology): “Evidence also indicates that happiness decreases in times of hardship, for example, there was a negative trend in subjective well-being in Belgium in the early 1980's coinciding with the slowing down of Belgium's economy and a negative trend in subjective well-being in Russia following the Rubel-cri”
The happiness–income paradox revisited (2010, background): “The first, a 2003 study by Hagerty and Veenhoven (16) has been previously critiqued by Easterlin (17), and these criticisms, which reject the claim of a positive relationship, have been acknowledged by Hagerty and Veenhoven to be correct (18).”
Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being (2018, unknown): “…researchers have used over-time cross-national analyses to suggest that economic growth is associated with increases in well-being (e.g., Diener, Kahneman, Tov, & Arora, 2010; Inglehart, Foa, Peterson, & Welzel, 2008; Hagerty & Veenhoven, 2003; Stevenson & Wolfers, 2008; Veenhoven & Hagerty, 2006).”
Predictors of Differences in Subjective Well-Being Across 97 Nations (2009, background): “Veenhoven and Hagerty (2006) have found that average happiness has risen slightly across the few poor nations for which longitudinal data are available.”
Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location (2015, background): “12 For instance, recent cross-country evidence shows that although mean happiness has not increased significantly in high income countries, it has improved considerably in low income nations for which data are available (Veenhoven and Hagerty, 2006).”
Sociological theories of subjective well-being (2009, background): “Average subjective well-being appears to be very stable over time, at least in Western nations over the last 30 years, where happiness rose slightly without much fluctuation (Veenhoven, 2006b).”
Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “Scholars are divided over the question of whether SWB remains constant over time, regardless of increasing incomes (Easterlin, 1995, 2010; Sacks, Stevenson, & Wolfers, 2010; Stevenson & Wolfers, 2008; Di Tella & MacCulloch, 2008; Veenhoven & Hagerty, 2006).”
Debt and Subjective Well-being: The Other Side of the Income-Happiness Coin (2016, background): “This attention on the relationship between income and SWB at the individual level is also part of a broader, ongoing controversy on whether national income leads to higher national SWB (Easterlin 1974; Veenhoven and Hagerty 2006).”
Why Inequality Makes Europeans Less Happy: The Role of Distrust, Status Anxiety, and Perceived Conflict (2014, background): “This not only questions the sole focus of the SL-theory on inequality, but also suggests that it is premature to claim that economic growth has done its job in making life any better, in particular, when seen in conjunction with research that looks at national affluence and SWB from a dynamic perspe”
How universal is happiness (2008, background): “The level of happiness has risen in most nations over the last 30 years, but declined in some (Veenhoven & Hagerty, 2006; Inglehart, 2008).”