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Closing the happiness gap: are Americans happier today than they were in the 1970s and 1980s?

Publication: The American (Washington, DC)
Publication Date: 01-NOV-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Closing the happiness gap: are Americans happier today than they were in the 1970s and 1980s?(THE AMERICAN SCENE)(Brief article)

Article Excerpt
Since the early 1970s, the General Social Survey has offered an annual update on America's gross national happiness. In a new paper, Wharton economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers note some interesting trends.

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"We find that, on average, happiness has failed to grow since the 1970s." Indeed...

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