3  For examples drawn from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries from the mid1970s to the mid-1990s, see Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch (2008), “Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?” Journal of Development Economics, vol. 86 (April), pp. 22–42.
For a survey of evidence on adaptability, see Shane Frederick and George Loewenstein (1999), “Hedonic Adaptation,” in Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz, eds., Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology (New York: Russell Sage Foundation), pp. 302–29. 4  See Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2011), How’s Life? Measuring Well-Being (Washington: OECD Publishing).