The Great Happiness Moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2135447

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“…Clark et al . () then looked at this issue systematically, using a wide variety of different datasets and a long time period (1970–2010). The crux of their argument is that countries with growing GDP per capita have also experienced falling happiness inequality.…”

Section: Income Growth and Happiness Inequalitymentioning

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“…At the same time as this ongoing debate about the relationship between average happiness and GDP growth, a striking new stylized fact has recently emerged regarding the distribution of happiness or “happiness inequality.” As documented in Clark et al . (), there is strong evidence across a wide variety of datasets that GDP growth is associated with systematically lower levels of happiness inequality (where this latter is picked up by the coefficient of variation). This paper contributes to this happiness–inequality literature.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Economic Growth Evens Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

Clark

Flèche

Senik

2015

Review of Income and Wealth

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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has fallen in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within countries, and between and within individuals. Our cross-country regression results argue that the extension of various public goods helps to explain this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylised fact arguably comes as a bonus to the Easterlin paradox, offering a somewhat brighter perspective for developing countries.

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Section: Income Growth and Happiness Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Economic Growth Evens Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

Clark

Flèche

Senik

2015

Review of Income and Wealth

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“…We are conscious that it would be desirable to understand, and be able to say more about, the distribution of well-being (though see Stevenson and Wolfers, 2008a for an innovative early approach, and Clark et al, 2012 for the recent and intriguing finding that happiness inequality is narrowing). The ideas in this paper will eventually somehow have to be fused, with those from other researchers, into a more coherent whole.…”

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National well-being policy and a weighted approach to human feelings

O’Donnell

Oswald

2015

Ecological Economics

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Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens’ happiness, life satisfaction, and other psychological scores. Yet how could such data actually be used? This paper is a cautious attempt to contribute to thinking on that question. It suggests a possible weighting method to calculate first-order changes in society’s well-being, discusses some of the potential principles of democratic ‘well-being policy’, and (as an illustrative example) reports data on how sub-samples of citizens believe feelings might be weighted.

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“…Hagenaars 1986;Van Praag 1993) and to calculate income-based poverty lines immediately after German reunification (Krause 1998). Over the last decade, the determinants of inequalities in happiness have also become a focus of cross-national research (Ferrer-i-Carbonell/Ramos 2010;Clark/Flèche/Senik 2012.…”

Section: Inequality Of Well-being: Considering Distributions and Socimentioning

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“…Clark/Flèche/Senik (2012 report that the highest happiness scores can be found in rich countries with low degrees of income inequality and cite strong evidence that GDP growth is associated with lower inequalities in happiness. Schneider (2011) highlights the role of social cognitions relating to income inequality in happiness evaluations.…”

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Quality of life and inequality

Krause¹

2016

Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life

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The Great Happiness Moderation

Cited by 24 publications

References 62 publications

Economic Growth Evens Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

Economic Growth Evens Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

National well-being policy and a weighted approach to human feelings

Quality of life and inequality

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