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Richard A. Easterlin
Researcher at University of Southern California
Publications - 197
Citations - 24576
Richard A. Easterlin is an academic researcher from University of Southern California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Happiness. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 194 publications receiving 23330 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard A. Easterlin include University of Massachusetts Boston & University of Pennsylvania.
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Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the association of income and happiness and suggest a Duesenberry-type model, involving relative status considerations as an important determinant of happiness.
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Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the material norms on which judgments of well-being are based increase in the same proportion as the actual income of the society, and that raising the incomes of all does not increase the happiness of all.
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Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory
TL;DR: For example, this article found that people think they were less happy in the past and will be happier in the future, because they project current aspirations to be the same throughout the life cycle while income grows.
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Explaining happiness
TL;DR: A better theory of happiness builds on the evidence that adaptation and social comparison affect utility less in the nonpecuniary than pecuniary domains.
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The happiness–income paradox revisited
Richard A. Easterlin,Laura Angelescu McVey,Malgorzata Switek,Onnicha Sawangfa,Jacqueline Smith Zweig +4 more
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that the long term nil relationship between happiness and income holds also for a number of developing countries, the eastern European countries transitioning from socialism to capitalism, and an even wider sample of developed countries than previously studied, and that in the short-term in all three groups of countries, Happiness and income go together.