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Justin Wolfers

Justin Wolfers

Economist, University of Michigan

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"We shouldn't get stuck on what other people said, because what other people said was wrong. This idea that all that mattered was your income relative to others was an idea known as the Easterlin paradox."

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Four decades of tracking human happiness

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Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Since 1981, the World Values Survey has asked people in over 100 countries a simple question: Are you happy? The answer, according to data spanning four decades and six survey waves, is increasingly yes—happiness rose in 45 of 52 countries with long-term data between 1981 and 2007, with India, Ireland, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and South Korea showing the steepest gains.

Updated Jan 22