The Center for Disease Control’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, or BRFSS (http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/), is old -style big data: over 400,000 telephone surveys each year focused primarily on the physical health of America.  Following the pioneering work by Andrew Oswald and Stephen Wu (http://ftp.iza.org/dp4600.pdf), economists have begun using the BRFSS for its questions on life satisfaction […]