• I. Introduction by the Editors: Shaping the Economics of Happiness- The Fundamental Contributions of Richard Easterlin


• II. Growth and Happiness


• Introduction


• 1: Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence


• 2: Will Raising the Incomes of All Increase the Happiness of All?


• 3: Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross-Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries


• 4: Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism


• 5: Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox


• III. Life Cycle Happiness


• Introduction


• 6: Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory


• 7: Life Cycle Happiness and its Sources: Intersections of Psychology, Economics, and Demography


• 8: The Cross-Over in the Life Cycle Happiness of American Women and Men


• 9: Aspirations, Attainments, and Satisfaction: Life Cycle Differences between American Women and Men


• 10: Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness


• 11: Explaining Happiness


• IV. Epilogue

Richard A. Easterlin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and Past President of the Population Association of America, and the Economic History Association. He was awarded the 2009 IZA Prize in Labour Economics.

The second in a series of books published with the IZA and honoring the work of its annual prize winners in labour economics. It presents Richard Easterlin's outstanding research on the analysis of subjective well-being, and on the relationship between demographic developments and economic outcomes.