Who Suffered Most from the Great Recession? Happiness in the United States

Kelsey J. O’Connor

doi:10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.04

Article Information

vol. 3 no. 3 72-99

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.04

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online April 1, 2017.

© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. O’Connor, Kelsey J. 2017. “Who Suffered Most from the Great Recession? Happiness in the United States.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(3): 72–99. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.04. I thank Professor Richard Easterlin for his guidance as my research adviser; Robson Morgan for contributing comments and ideas; conference participants for helpful comments; John Ifcher, Arne L. Kalleberg, Rosanna Smart, and Till M. von Wachter for comments on previous drafts; and, for financial assistance, the University of Southern California and the project “Tuscany: A Global Laboratory for Quality of Life, ” promoted by Tuscany Region, Toscana Promozione and E.di C.s.p.a.-Polo Lionello Bonfanti, Prot. 2014/3014/8.4.1/30, Decreto n.135 del 28/04/2014 and Decreto n. 325 del 15/12/2014. Direct correspondence to: Kelsey J. O’Connor at kelseyoc{at}usc.edu, University of Southern California, Department of Economics, 3620 S. Vermont Ave., KAP 300, Los Angeles, CA 90089. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.