@inbook{b5b1e54b392f4fc399368becb8ff3fbb,
title = "Happiness in the Hands of Empirical Economists",
abstract = "In a discussion of what characterize a good human life the concept of happiness and what determines happiness is important. Since the late twentieth century economists and other social scientists have shown a fast-growing interest in happiness defined as self-reported well-being. Many contributions have analyzed the relationship between happiness and economic factors, especially income, and other relevant background factors. An initial conviction of no relationship between happiness and income – seen as a paradox in economic terms – has changed to a recognition of a dominantly positive relationship. At the same time several studies find a number of other factors such as age, gender, civil status, income distribution, health and education to be equally, or more important. The chapter gives a survey of this literature.",
keywords = "Easterlin paradox, Happiness, Income, Inequality, Self-reported well-being",
author = "Pedersen, {Peder J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-08462-1_5",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-08461-4",
series = "Ethical Economy",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "71--83",
editor = "Niels K{\ae}rg{\aa}rd",
booktitle = "Market, Ethics and Religion",
address = "Netherlands",
}