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Easterlin, Richard A. – Social Indicators Research, 2005
In a rebuttal of Easterlin (1995), Hagerty and Veenhoven (2003) analyze data for 21 countries and conclude that "growing national income does go with greater happiness." But the U.S. experience does not support this conclusion, which they obtain only by mixing together two sets of noncomparable surveys. Moreover, the result of studies of European…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Income, Life Satisfaction