Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92717 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 813
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether the level of happiness and integrated process of changes in happiness are the same. Using the daily data of two waves of four and six months each, we found that the level of happiness is stationary, whereas the integrated process of changes is non-stationary with a rising trend, implying that they are different series. An examination of the causes of the difference indicated that although adaptation completely influences the level of happiness, it only partially influences the change in happiness. This may be because the latter is based on a comparison between today and yesterday.
Subjects: 
change in happiness
Easterlin paradox
daily web survey
adaptation
JEL: 
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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