Executive summary Around the world, populations are ageing at a faster pace than in the
past and this demographic transition will have effects on all aspects of societies. In May …

Mainland China has undergone profound changes dating back to the nineteenth century,
including a contemporary period of rapid modernization that began in the 1980s. The result …

High levels of air pollution in China may contribute to the urban population's reported low
level of happiness,–. To test this claim, we have constructed a daily city-level expressed …

This is the first paper in a series of two that synthesizes, compares, and extends methods for
causal inference with longitudinal panel data in a structural equation modeling (SEM) …

There is immense concern about economic inequality, both among the scholarly community
and in the general public, and many insist that equality is an important social goal. However …

Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to
its potential effect on mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to …

The origins of happiness: the science of well-being over the life course Page 2 THE ORIGINS
OF HAPPINESS Page 3 Page 4 The Origins Of happiness The Science of Well-Being over the …

Abstract The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with
income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of …

Previous research has shown that having rich neighbors is associated with reduced levels of
subjective well-being, an effect that is likely due to social comparison. The current study …

Using the 2012–2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of
energy poverty (EP) on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adults aged 18 and …