Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness

By M. Hagerty, R. Veenhoven. 2003

497 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Richard A. Easterlin
2. R. Veenhoven
3. E. Diener
4. S. Oishi
5. Andrew J. Oswald
6. Louis Tay
7. David G. Blanchflower
8. M. Hagerty

In Social Psychology

1. E. Diener
2. Martin E. P. Seligman
3. S. Oishi
4. R. Veenhoven
5. Louis Tay
6. Richard A. Easterlin
7. Christopher Peterson
8. T. Kashdan

In Sociology and Political Science

1. E. Diener
2. Richard A. Easterlin
3. Andrew J. Oswald
4. M. Hagerty
5. R. Veenhoven
6. Martin E. P. Seligman
7. S. Oishi
8. R. Inglehart

Citations in the corpus

• Which model of capitalism best delivers both wealth and equality? (2014, background): “Indeed, Haggerty and Veenhoven (2003) showed that national happiness is a function of both national economic wealth and equality in a study of 21 developed and developing countries over time.”
• The happiness–income paradox revisited (2010, background): “Hagerty MR, Veenhoven R (2006) Rising happiness in nations 1946–2004: A reply to Easterlin.”
• Development, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007) (2008, background): “Cross-sectional data from the 1990 Values Surveys suggested that economic development is conducive to rising levels of SWB; this interpretation was proposed by Inglehart (1997) and Hagerty and Veenhoven (2003).”
• Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence (2013, unknown): “One of the first such studies was an article by Hagerty and Veenhoven (2003).”
• Income Aspirations, Television and Happiness: Evidence from the World Values Survey (2006, unknown): “A recent paper by Hagerty and Veenhoven (2003) challenges this thesis, claiming that growing GDP is associated with greater happiness.”
• Inequality with Ordinal Data (2017, unknown): “18See Hagerty and Veenhoven (2003), Deaton (2008), Stevenson and Wolfers (2008a), Inglehart et al. (2008).”
• International Happiness: A New View on the Measure of Performance (2011, background): “…European 5 Published articles on international evidence include Stack and Eshelman (1998), Lester (2002), Schyns (2002), Steel and Ones (2002), Hagerty and Veenhoven (2003), Fahey and Smyth (2004), Powdthavee (2005), Bray and Gunnell (2006), the tongue-in-cheek Christensen, Herskind , and…”
• 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).”