中文摘要：

随着生活水平不断提高，幸福研究日益成为经济学界关注的焦点。目前，此领域的研究主要集中在幸福的概念、测量和前因变量三个方面：研究者对幸福是什么仍是众说纷纭；测量幸福的方法有传统定量分析法、日重现法和幸福指数法；而前因变量的研究则涉及人格因素、社会人口因素、情形性因素、经济性因素和体制性因素。综合当前研究成果，明确界定幸福的基础概念，进一步完善量表，进行幸福的系统化理论研究及动态化探讨应是未来研究的趋向。

英文摘要：

With the improvement of living standard, happiness research is increasingly becoming a focus in economical world. The research mainly focuses on three aspects： the concept of happiness, measurement and antecedent variables. Researchers have different opinions on happiness; About measurements of happiness there are traditional quantitative analysis, day reconstruction method and happiness index method; Antecedent variables study is about personality factors, social demography factors, circumstance factors, economy factors and institution factors. Future research in this field should clearly define the basic concept of happiness, improve further the measurement, carry out systematically theoretical studies of happiness and explore the dynamics of happiness.