One more reason you’ll be happier if you remember to look for working papers…
As much as I emphasize using the indexes and abstracts of journal literature in the social sciences, it is also important, especially when looking for emerging research, to look at the research being published by the major NGOs, IGOs and think tanks.
Here, for example, are two new studies on happiness from the OECD (links lead to downloadable PDFs).
No. 99. Happiness and Age Cycles – Return to Start…? On the Functional Relationship between Subjective Well-being and Age
Justina A.V. Fischer (November 2009)
A study using data from the World Values Survey.
No. 96. Income Distribution and Subjective Happiness: A Survey
Claudia Senik (December 2009)
A summary of empirical literature using subjective data from such sources as the General Social Survey and Eurobarometer along with observable income data.