Happiness Economics From 35 000 Feet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23345796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon Mackerron (0000-0001-8326-6047, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), George Mackerron |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 705-735 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Surveys (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0804 • E-ISSN: 1467-6419 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00672.x |
| OpenAlex | W1835396724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 147 |
The economics of happiness, or subjective well being, is an expanding field, with a growing number of applied papers reporting empirical associations between happiness and other variables. This paper takes a broad view of the topic, aiming to provide an outline of the literature in relation to happiness economics' origins, definitions, theory, methods, applications, critiques, relations with other areas of economic research, political and policy connections, and promising directions for future inquiry.
Classical economics · Economics · Field (mathematics) · Happiness · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public economics · Relation (database) · Computer Science · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Mathematics · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
'In Every River, in Every Lake'
Does Population Hollowing Bring a Loss in Happiness
Research on the Influence of Informal Employment on Residents’ Happiness in China
The Concept of Subjective Well-being in Housing Research
Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services
Life Satisfaction in South Africa
How does neighborhood design affect life satisfaction? Evidence from Twin Cities
Subjective well-being and engagement in arts, culture and sport
The Policy Information Gap and Resettlers’ Well-Being
Does the oath enhance truth-telling in eyewitness testimony? experimental evidence
Urban Emotion Sensing Beyond ‘Affective Capture’
The impact of health vs. non-health goals on individuals’ lifestyle program choices
The impact of basic pension for urban and rural residents on the subjective well-being of the older adult in Chinese rural areas
The Subjective Well-being Policy
A quantitative assessment model for students’ sustainability
Unemployment’s Life-Satisfaction Cost and Loneliness
Modern Economic Growth, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being
Subjective Well-Being and Heterogeneous Contexts
Importance Weighting in Subjective Well-Being Measures
Sustainability and wellbeing
Life satisfaction amongst working parents
Effects of urban parks on residents’ expressed happiness before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
A spatial machine learning approach to valuing development and greenness in well-being
Spatial Variability of the Relationship between Air Pollution and Well-being
Can Black Entrepreneurship Reduce Black-White Inequality in the United States
Gini Who? The Relationship between Inequality Perceptions and Life Satisfaction
Homeownership and happiness in urban China
Does Meeting Expectations of Relative Income Improve Well-Being
Work hours, job characteristics and life satisfaction among working mothers and fathers
The Social Connectedness and Life Satisfaction Nexus
The commuting behaviour of self‐employed workers
Does commuting matter to subjective well-being
Happiness is greater in natural environments
Double-edged sword
A twenty-first century of solitude? Time alone and together in the United States
The Impact of Welfare Facilities on Happiness of the Elderly
Are Poor People Less Happy? Findings from Melanesia
Does money buy happiness? Evidence from an unconditional cash transfer in Zambia
Managed Participatory Sensing with YouSense
Foundationalism About Wellbeing Measurement
Subjective well-being in China
Reassessing the commuting penalty for immigrants
Estimating Endogenous Effects on Ordinal Outcomes
Exploring the effects of commuting on workers’ satisfaction
What Makes Indonesians Satisfied With Their Health? A Multilevel Analysis
Effect of the ecological environment on the residents’ happiness
Wellbeing Indices
Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe
Measuring nuclear power plant externalities using life satisfaction data
Workplace environmental conditions and life satisfaction in Spain
Environmental value of green spaces in Japan
Natural Hazards and Well-Being in a Small-Scale Island Society
Subjective Well-being and Environmental Quality
Air pollution and happiness
Well-Being Adjusted Health Expectancy
The impact of daily weather conditions on life satisfaction
New Approaches to Human Mobility
Are Measures of Well-Being Philosophically Adequate
Happiness and job satisfaction in urban China
Public Greenspace and Life Satisfaction in Urban Australia
Urbanisation, natural amenities and subjective well-being
Can happiness measures be calibrated
Reference group inequality, positional goods, and their impact on subjective well-being
Measuring Well-being
Examining the Relationship Between Different Dimensions of Subjective Well-being and Savings Behaviour
Life Satisfaction in Australia
Wellbeing in China
The Impact of Food Price Inflation on Subjective Well-being
Valuing Ecosystem Diversity in South East Queensland
What Matters More, Perceived or Real Crime
Perception or Reality, What Matters Most When it Comes to Crime in Your Neighbourhood
County-Level Determinants of Mental Health, 2002-2008
Gender Differences in Commuting
A Worldwide Measure of Societal Quality of Life
Characteristics of the economic phenomenon of happiness and related aspects among the self-employed population in Lithuania
Job satisfaction amongst academics
Gender differences in happiness in Chinese society
Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach
Well-Being for Public Policy
Happiness
Experience Sampling Method
Happiness and Economics
The High Price of Materialism
Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being
Genes, Culture, Democracy, and Happiness
The welfare function of income in Belgium
Money and mental wellbeing
A perspective on psychology and economics
Beyond Money
Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind
The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well‐Being and Ill‐Being
The marginal utility of income
What is the capability approach?
Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network
Watching alone
Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data
Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing
Money Does Matter! Evidence from Increasing Real Income and Life Satisfaction in East Germany Following Reunification
The China Puzzle
Cultural constructions of happiness
Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being
How Can Measures of Subjective Well-Being Be Used to Inform Public Policy?
Experienced Utility as a Standard of Policy Evaluation
Measuring Subjective Well-Being
Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility
Income and well-being
On the Use of Subjective Well-Being Data for Environmental Valuation
The anatomy of subjective well-being
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China
Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism
Toward National Well-Being Accounts
Neighbors as Negatives
Well-being over time in Britain and the USA
Ecological Momentary Assessment
What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence
A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience
Generalized Ordered Logit/Partial Proportional Odds Models for Ordinal Dependent Variables
Pattern of Human Concerns
Resources, values, and development
The foreign policy decision-maker simulation
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Subjective well-being poverty vs . Income poverty and capabilities poverty
Development as Freedom
Reasons and Persons
Toward a new welfare economics for sustainability
Life satisfaction and air quality in London
Implications of happiness research for environmental economics
Environmental degradation and happiness
Happiness, geography and the environment
Economics and happiness
Ranking quality of life using subjective well-being data
Environmental welfare analysis
Willing consumers—or locked-in? Policies for a sustainable consumption
Climate and happiness
Environment and happiness
Managing without growth
Do we really know what makes us happy? A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being
An Exploration of the Validity of the Unbounded Write-In Scale for Inter-Individual Research
The changing face of mainstream economics
Gross national happiness as an answer to the Easterlin Paradox
Limits to growth
Jevons, Marshall and the Utilitarian Tradition
Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness
Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together
Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles
Ambition and Jealousy
The Discipline of Economics
Valuing Air Quality Using the Life Satisfaction Approach
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction
Happiness and Economic Performance
Income and Happiness
Unhappiness and Unemployment
The Road not Taken
How Important is Methodology for the Estimates of the Determinants of Happiness
Heterogeneity in Reported Well‐Being
A Case for Happiness, Cardinalism, and Interpersonal Comparability
Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health
Happiness as achievement
Happiness’ in cross-linguistic & cross-cultural perspective
Capabilities and Happiness
Developing a National Index of Subjective Wellbeing
Measuring Well-being Across Europe
Maximizing versus satisficing
Can people feel happy and sad at the same time
Les causes de la peur
The structure of psychological well-being revisited
Bowling Alone
Relative Income, Happiness, and Utility
Live Better by Consuming Less
Neuroeconomics
Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals
Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics
Social Inequalities in Happiness in the United States, 1972 to 2004
Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World
Anomalies
Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being
| Unique citing works | 78 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2027 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 73 |