Search Results - subject:"Income comparisons"

Don’t look up! Individual income comparisons and subjective well-being of students in Thailand

Dufhues, Thomas; Möllers, Judith; Jantsch, Antje; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 24 (2023) 2, pp. 477-503

survey instrument. We ask respondents to identify individual reference persons for income comparisons. We find that these … reference persons come from a range of social groups. Interactions between personality traits and the direction of income … comparisons lead to different levels of subjective well-being. This highlights the importance of collecting information on …

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Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses: The Origins of Reference Groups

Leites, Martín; Paleo, Camila; Ramos Morilla, Xavier; … - 2022

Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations? We provide evidence that feeds the theoretical debate about the endogeneity or exogeneity of reference groups. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that reference groups are...

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Choosing or inheriting the Joneses : the origins of reference groups

Leites, Martín; Paleo, Camila; Ramos Morilla, Xavier; … - 2022

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Choosing or inheriting the Joneses : the origins of reference groups

Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Leites, Martín; Paleo, Camila; … - 2022

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The partner pay gap : associations between spouses' relative earnings and life satisfaction among couples in the UK

Gash, Vanessa; Plagnol, Anke C. - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 35 (2021) 3, pp. 566-583

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The partner pay gap: Associations between spouses' relative earnings and life satisfaction among couples in the UK

Gash, Vanessa; Plagnol, Anke C. - 2019

Despite women's recent gains in education and employment, husbands still tend to out-earn their wives. This article examines the relationship between the partner pay gap, i.e. the difference in earned income between married, co-resident partners, and life satisfaction. Contrary to previous...

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The partner pay gap : associations between spouses' relative earnings and life satisfaction among couples in the UK

Gash, Vanessa; Plagnol, Anke C. - 2019

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Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018

John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...

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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902869

When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia; Yamada, Katsunori - 2015

While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to …

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