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The Sadness of Stay-at-Home Moms

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 18, 2012

Gallup: Stay-at-home moms fare worse than employed moms at every income level in terms of…

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The Value of Savings

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on August 5, 2009

Riffing off my response to Chait, Free Exchange’s Washington-based blogger writes: Suppose you made a…

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  • Environment

The Poor but Unusually Chipper and Long-Lived Index

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on July 6, 2009

The Happy Planet Index is an ideologically rigged ranking released each year by the New…

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The Happiness Gender Gap Again

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 26, 2009

Stevenson and Wolfers’ paper, “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” covered in the Times back…

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Happiness and Income Inequality

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 18, 2009

Yglesias writes: I think the links between taxation, spending, and inequality are the most plausible…

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The Complexity of Happiness

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 12, 2009

Joshua Wolf Stenk’s Atlantic essay on George Vaillant and the Harvard Study of Adult Development…

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Happy Meals

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on April 14, 2009

Fast food makes kids fat… and happy!

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Reasons to Have Zero Kids

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on April 9, 2009

The first one hits marital satisfaction hard.  An eight-year study of 218 couples found 90…

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  • Empiricism

The Meaning Dodge

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on April 1, 2009

E.D. Kain on the fact that kids don’t tend to make us measurably happier: The…

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United States of Happiness

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 10, 2009

Here’s something I’ve been waiting for a long time: a comparison of self-reported happiness by…

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