Two Happiness Puzzles
探讨两个幸福之谜：一是相对收入是否影响福祉，盖洛普数据显示对生活评价无此效应；二是宗教虔诚度与福祉的关系，个人层面正相关但地区层面负相关。
We consider two happiness puzzles. First, many studies show that only relative income matters for well-being. Yet the Gallup data for the United States and from the rest of the world show no such result, at least for life evaluation. There may be relative income effects in hedonic well-being though other interpretations are available. Second, more religious people typically report higher experiential well-being but more religious places have worse well-being on average, both across US states and across countries. More religious states and counties in the US also have worse murder rates, deaths from cardiovascular disease and from cancer.