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It is well known that economic inequality is rising. In most industrialised nations the distribution of wealth and income is becoming increasingly concentrated. In the United States, the top 10% of earners…
Fall in love, have a baby, watch your happiness and satisfaction plummet. Psychology researchers know the transition to parenthood can be rough on relationships.
Since 1990, GDP per person in China has doubled and then redoubled. With average incomes multiplying fourfold in little more than two decades, one might expect many of the Chinese people to be dancing…
How happy are you in your job? Very happy or very unhappy? New data suggests that the happiest workers in the UK occupy jobs in the clergy. The next happiest workers are CEOs, and “managers and proprietors…
Researchers have known for some time that higher education does not necessarily lead to greater levels of life satisfaction…
An international study has found being able to accept that certain things cannot be changed is directly related to satisfaction…
Average household incomes in Australia defied the global financial crisis to increase substantially in the 2008-09 financial…
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Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Chair & Professor of Psychology and Director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Research Associate, Social Policy and Social Work Department, University of York
