Happiness & Public Policy

• Alberto Alesina, Rafael Di Tella, & Robert MacCulloch, “Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?” http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/alesina/papers/HappIneqREVApril3.pdf

• Mathias Binswanger, “Why Does Income Growth Fail to Make Us Happier? - Treadmills Behind the Paradox of Happiness,” Series A: Discussion Paper 2003-W01, June 2003.

• David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald, “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” NBER Working Paper 11416, http://www.nber.org/papers/w11416.

• David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald, “Money, Sex, and Happiness: An Empirical Study,” NBER Website, August 25, 2005, http://www.nber.org/papers/w10499.

• David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald, “The Rising Well-Being of the Young,” NBER Working Paper No. 6102, July 1997.

• David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald, “Well-Being Over Time in Britian and the USA,” NBER Working Paper No. 7487, January 2000, http://www.nber.org/papers/w7487.

• Gordon D. A. Brown, Jonathan Gardner, Andrew Oswald, & Jing Qian, “Does Wage Rank Affect Employees’ Wellbeing?” September 20, 2004.

• Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell & Bernard M. S. van Praag, “Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes,” Institute for the Study of Labor, Discussion Paper No. 854, August 2003.

• Andrew E. Clark and Andrew J. Oswald, “Well-Being in Panels.”

• Ronald H. Coase, “The Problem of Social Cost,” Journal of Law and Economics, October 1960.

• • “Well-Being Over Time In Britain and the USA,” NBER Working Paper 7487, http://www.nber.org/papers/w7487.

• • “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” NBER Website, Thursday, August 25, 2005, http://www.nber.org/papers/w11416.

• • “The Rising Well-Being of the Young in Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries,” edited by David Blanchflower and Richard Freeman, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2000.

• Robert Darnton, “The Pursuit of Happiness,” The Wilson Quarterly, Vol 19, Issue 4, Autumn 1995.

• Diener, E., & Tov, W., “Culture and subjective well-being,” September 6, 2004, http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/hottopic/CultureSWBDraft.htm.

• Diener, E., & Oishi, S., “The Nonobvious Social Psychology of Happiness,” Invited paper, Psychological Inquiry, 2004.

• Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P., “Beyond money: Toward an economy of well-being..,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5, pp. 1-31, 2004.

• Diener, E. & Lucas, R., “Subjective emotional well-being,” In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (2nd ed.), New York: The Guilford Press, 2000.

• Diener, E., Scollon, C. N., Lucas, R. E., “The evolving concept of subjective well-being: the multifaceted nature of happiness,” Advances in Cell Aging and Gerontology, 15, 187-219, 2003.

• Rafael DiTella and Robert MacCullough, “Income, Happiness and Inequality as Measures of Welfare.”

• Rafael DiTella and Robert MacCullough, “Partisan Social Happiness,” February 10, 2004.

• Richard A. Easterlin, “Is There an ‘Iron Law of Happiness?’” IEPR Working Paper No. 05.8, January 2005, http://ssrn.com/abstract=653543.

• Richard A. Easterlin, “Life Cycle Happiness and Its Sources,” October 26, 2004.

• Richard A. Easterlin, “Feeding the Illusion of Growth and Happiness: A Reply to Hagerty and Veenhoven,” April 2, 2004.

• Richard A. Easterlin, “Explaining Happiness.”

• Richard A. Easterlin, “Income and Happiness: Toward a Unified Theory,” The Economic Journal, 111, July, 2001, pp. 465-484

• • “Explaining Happiness,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 100, no. 19, pp. 11176-11183.

• Robert H. Frank, “Does Absolute Income Matter?” March 21, 2003.

• Frederick, S. & Loewenstein, G., “Hedonic Adaptation: In Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology,” Daniel Kahneman, Edward Diener, and Norbert Schwarz (editors), New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, pp. 302-329, 1999.

• Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer, “Reported Subjective Well-Being: A Challenge for Economic Theory and Economic Policy,” SOEP Anniversary Conference Berlin, July 7-9, 2003.

• Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer, “Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility,” Berkeley Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper No. 63, April 12, 2002.

• Bruno Frey, Simon Luechinger, & Alois Stutzer, “Valuing Public Goods: The Life Satisfaction Approach,” Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Working Paper Series ISSN 1424-0459, Working Paper No. 184, March 2004.

• Paul Frijters & John P. Haisken-DeNew & Michael A. Shields, “Money Does Matter! Evidence from Increasing Real Income and Life Satisfaction in East Germany following Reunification,” American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(3), pp. 730-740, 2004.

• Gertner, Jon, “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness,” The New York Times, September 7, 2003.

• Daniel Gilbert, “Four More Years of Happiness,” The New York Times, Pg. 23, January 20, 2005.

• Gilbert, D. T., Lieberman, M. D., Morewedge, C. K., & Wilson, T. D, “The peculiar longevity of things not so bad,” Psychological Science, 15, pp. 14-19, 2004.

• Gilbert, D. T., Ebert, J. E. J., “Decisions and Revisions: The Affective Forecasting of Changeable Outcomes,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 82, No. 4

• Gilbert, D. T., Pinel, E. C., Brown, R. P., Wilson, T. D., “The Illusion of External Agency,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 690-700, 2000.

• Gilbert, D. T., Morewedge, C. K., Risen, J. L., Wilson, T. D., “Looking Forward to Looking Backward: The Misprediction of Regret.”

• Hamilton, Clive, “Real and Imagined Hardship in Australia,” Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 52.

• Daniel Haybron, “What Do We Want from a Theory of Happiness?,” Metaphilosophy, 34:3 (2003), pp. 305-329, http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/philos/WhatDoWeWantFromATheory.pdf

• Bruce Headey, & Mark Wooden, “The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being.”

• Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Mark Wooden, “Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness - Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on The Combined Effects of Wealth, Income, and Consumption,” German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) Users’ Conference, Berlin, June 24-26, 2004.

• John F. Helliwell, “How’s Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being.”

• Lok San Ho, “Happiness and Public Policy,” http://www.ln.edu.hk/ihss/happy/Ho_paper.pdf

• Kahneman, D., “Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based Approach,”

• • “Objective Happiness,” in Kahnemann, Diener, and Schwartz, eds., 1999, p. 3-25.

• Kashdan, T. B., “The assessment of subjective well-being (issues raised by the Oxford Happiness Questionaire),” Personality and Individual Differences, 36, pp. 1225-1232, 2004.

• Geeta Kingdon & John Knight, “Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society,” Development and Comp Systems 0409067, Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL, 2004.

• Arnold Kling, “Can Money Buy Happiness?” Tech Central Station, http://www2.techcentralstation.com/1051/printer.jsp?CID=2051-040403M.

• Lieberman, M. D., Ochsner, K. N., Gilbert, & D. T., Schacter, D. L., “Do Amnesics Exhibit Cognitive Dissonance Reduction,” Psychological Science, Vol. 12, No. 2, March 2001.

• George Loewenstein and David Schkade, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice? Predicting Future Feelings,” in Kahneman, Diener, and Schwarz, pp. 85-105.

• Richard E. Lucas, Andrew E. Clark, Yannis Georgellis, Ed Diener, “Reexamining Adaptation and the Set Point Model of Happiness: Reactions to Changes in Marital Status,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 84, No. 3, 2003.

• Randloph M. Nesse, “Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness,” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B (2004) 359, 1333–1347, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nesse/Articles/Nesse-EvolElusiveHappiness-ProcRoyalSoc-2004.pdf

• Andrew J. Oswald, “The Macroeconomics of Happiness,” with Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch, October 2001.

• Andrew J. Oswald, “Happiness and Economic Performance,” Economic Journal, April 1997.

• Christopher Peterson, & Martin E. P. Seligman, “Values in Action (VIA) Classification of Strengths.”

• • “The Green-Eyed Monster and Social Policy,” February 2002, (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/envyaccountancyfeb2002.pdf.

88 “So are We Getting Happier?” The Times, August 2002.

• • “Well-Being in Panels,” with Andrew Clark, December 2002, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/revwellbeinginpanelsclarkosdec2002.pdf.

• • “Does Wage Rank Affect Employees’ Wellbeing?,” September 2004, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/rftwagessept04.pdf.

• • “Happiness and Economic Performance,” Economic Journal, 107, pp. 1815-1831, 1997.

• • “So Are We Getting Happier?,” The Times of London, August 2002.

• • “Chasing the Dream,” The Economist, August 7, 2003.

• Sharla Stewart, “Can behavioral economies save us from ourselves?” The University of Chicago Magazine, http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0502/features/economies-print.shtml.

• J.D Trout, “Paternalism and Cognitive Bias,” Law and Philosophy, XX, 2004.

• Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada and van Praag, B.M.S. M.S., “Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes,” IZA Discussion Paper No. 854; Tinbergen Institute Working Paper No. TI 01-014/3, September 2003, http://ssrn.com/abstract=300682.

• van Praag, B.M.S. M.S., Frijters, Paul and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada, “The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being,” DIW Discussion Paper No. 265, October 2001, http://ssrn.com/abstract=302286.

• van Praag, B.M.S. M.S., Frijters, Paul and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada, “A Structural Model of Well-Being: With an Application to German Data,” FEE, Universiteit Van Amsterdam Working Paper, August 4, 2000, http://ssrn.com/abstract=243904.

• Ruut Veenhoven, “Is Happiness a Trait?” Social Indicators Research, 1994, vol 32, pp 101-160, http://www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/veenhoven/Pub1990s/94a-full.pdf

• • “Why Social Policy Needs Subjective Indicators,” Social Indicators Research 58: 33–45, 2002

• Timothy D. Wilson and Daniel T. Gilbert, “Affective Forecasting,”

• Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel T. Gilbert, and David B. Centerbar, “Making Sense: The Causes of Emotional Evanescence,” 2002.

• Wilson, T. D., Centerbar, D. B., Kermer, D. A., & Gilbert, D. T. “The pleasures of uncertainty: Prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, pp. 5-21, 2005.

• Wilson, T. D., Meyers, J., & Gilbert, D. T., “How happy was I, anyway? A retrospective impact bias,” Social Cognition, 21, pp. 407-432, 2003.

• Wilson, T. D., Wheatley, T., Meyers, J., Gilbert, D. T., Axsom, D., “Focalism: A Source of Durability Bias in Affective Forecasting,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp 821-836, 2000.

• Wilson, T. D., Wheatley, T. P., Kurtz, J. L., Dunn, E. W., Gilbert, D. T., “When to Fire: Anticipatory Versus Postevent Reconstrual of Uncontrollable Events,” PSPB, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 340-351, March 2004.

• Wilson, T. D., Centerbar, D. B., Kermer, D. A., Gilbert, D. T., “The Pleasures of Uncertainty: Prolonging Positive Moods in Ways People Do Not Anticipate,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 5-21, 2005.

Books

• Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics (New York: Fireside, 1999).

• Ed Diener and Eunkook M. Suh, eds., Culture and Subjective Well-being (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).

• Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox (New York: Random House, 2003).

• Robert Frank, Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).

• • Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in an Era of Success (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).

• Richard Epstein, Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

• Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz, eds., Well-being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999).

• Robert E. Lane, The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

• Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (New York: Penguin, 2005).

• David Lykken, Happiness: The Nature and Nurture of Joy and Contentment (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999).

• David G. Myers, The Pursuit of Happiness: Discovering the Pathway to Fulfillment, Well-being, and Enduring Personal Joy (New York: Avon Books, 1992).

• Robert Nozick, The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations (New York: Touchstone Books, 1989).

• Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).

• Allen Parducci, Happiness, Pleasure, and Judgment: The Contextual Theory and Its Applications (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995) http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27126613

• Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).

• Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (New York: Liveright, 1996).

• Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer, Happiness and Economics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).

• Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More (New York: Ecco, 2004).

• Tibor Scitovsku, The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction, rev. ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).