TY - CHAP AB - Abstract This paper applies a recently developed method of ranking socioeconomic inequality in health to ranking U.S. happiness from 1994 to 2012 using the GSS data. We also compare happiness between subgroups as decomposed by gender, race, and age. We establish and test a monotone condition of happiness – a richer person is likely to be happier. Under the monotone condition, standard tools of welfare and inequality ranking can be applied straightforwardly. VL - 22 SN - 978-1-78350-556-2, 978-1-78350-567-8/1049-2585 DO - 10.1108/S1049-258520140000022006 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-258520140000022006 AU - Chen Shiyi AU - Zheng Buhong PY - 2014 Y1 - 2014/01/01 TI - Socioeconomic Inequality in Happiness in the United States T2 - Economic Well-Being and Inequality: Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting T3 - Research on Economic Inequality PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 217 EP - 236 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -