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Schwarz and Fritz Strack, “Evaluating One’s Life: A Judgment Model of Subjective Well-Being,” in Fritz Strack, Michael Argyle, and Norbert Schwarz, eds., Subjective Well-Being, An Interdisciplinary Perspective (New York: Pergamon Press, 1991), p. 36. Sigmund Freud quote is from Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), p. 52. The inconsistent choices of overweight Americans are found in Jeffrey M. Jones, “In U.S., More Would Like to Lose Weight Than Are Trying To,” Gallup, November 20, 2009 (www.gallup.com/poll/124448/in-u.s.-more-lose-weight-than-trying-to.aspx, accessed on 08/08/2010). Abraham Lincoln’s tale is in Ben Bernanke, “The Economics of Happiness,” Speech at the University of South Carolina Commencement Ceremony, May 8, 2010 (found at www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20100508a.pdf, accessed 08/16/2010).

67-70 Happiness Is a Concrete Floor: The link between sex and happiness is described in David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, “Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 106, No. 3, 2004, pp. 393-415. The data on happy Republicans comes from Paul Taylor, “Republicans: Still Happy Campers,” Pew Research Center, 2008; and Jaime Napier and John Jost, “Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?,” Psychological Science, Vol. 19, No. 6, June 2008, pp. 565-572. The data on happiness in East Germany are found in Paul Frijters, John Haisken-DeNew, and Michael Shields, “Money Does Matter! Evidence from Increasing Real Incomes and Life Satisfaction in East Germany Following Reunification,” American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 3, June 2004, pp. 730-740. The data on happiness in Russia come from Richard Easterlin, “Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism,” SOEP Papers, DIW Berlin, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), April 2008; and Elizabeth Brainerd, “Economic Reform and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union: A Study of the Suicide Epidemic in the 1990s,” IZA Discussion Paper, January 2001. The story about the impact of a concrete floor on happiness in Mexico’s Coahuila state is in Matias Cattaneo, Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, Sebastián Martínez, and Rocio Titiunik, “Housing Health and Happiness,” World Bank Policy Research Paper, April 2007. The data on happiness among the rich and the poor come from Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch, “Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 86, No. 2, April 2008, pp. 22-42. Robert Frank’s statement is in Robert Frank, “Does Absolute Income Matter?” in P. L. Porta and L. Bruni, eds., Economics and Happiness (New York : Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 67. The data on income and happiness in Brooklyn and San Jose, California, is found in Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2006-2008 estimates (factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=ACS&_submenuId=&_lang=en&_ts= , accessed on 08/08/2010) and the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index (at www.ahiphiwire.org/wellbeing/, accessed 08/16/2010).

70-72 The Treadmill of Happiness: How happiness adapts to positive and negative shocks is discussed in Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee, “Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges,” Warwick University Working Paper, July 2006; Andrew E. Clark, Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis, and Richard E. Lucas, “Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis,” Economic Journal, Vol. 118, June 2008, pp. F222-F243. Richard Easterlin’s finding on Americans’ stagnant happiness is in Richard Easterlin, “Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence,” in Paul A. David and Melvin Reder, eds., Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Moses Abramowitz (New York: Academic Press, 1974), p. 89. The data on the impact on happiness of your neighbors’ wealth are in Erzo Luttmer, “Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol.