Happiness Growth and the Life Cycle

The second in a series of books published with the IZA this volume presents Richard Easterlin's outstanding research on the analysis of subjective well-being and on the relationship between demographic developments and economic outcomes. In both fields his work has laid the foundations for enlarging the scope of traditional economic analysis and has increased our understanding of behavior in several important domains such as fertility choices labor market behavior and the determinants of individual well-being.