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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

New Capabilities

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? Happiness rose in 45 of 52 countries across six survey waves from 1981 to 2007, with the steepest gains in India, Ireland, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and South Korea.

Updated May 22