HAPPINESS AND HEALTH: TWO PARADOXES
梳理了幸福与健康两个研究领域，发现人均收入只在很低阈值内起作用，超过后相对收入和关系因素更为关键，并指出交叉研究有助于理解其决定因素，政策上减少贫困和不平等可同时改善健康与幸福。
Abstract This paper aims to establish systematic relationships between the two rapidly growing research streams on the socio‐economic determinants of happiness and health. Although they have been pursued quite independently by different communities of researchers, empirical evidence points to very similar underlying causal mechanisms. In particular, in both cases per capita income seems to play a major role only up to a very low threshold, beyond which relative income and other relational factors become crucial for happiness and health. On the basis of these structural analogies, we argue that a process of cross‐fertilisation between these two research streams would contribute to their development by clarifying the relationship between happiness, health and their determinants. Finally, we observe that the two literatures have converging policy implications: measures meant to reduce poverty and inequality and invest in social and environmental capital may improve both health and happiness of the individuals.