happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … the relationship between subject well-being and income observed within countries. Finally, examining the relationship …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the … the population have gained under the reforms, average real household per capita income has declined significantly with … households at the lower end of the income distribution suffering the greatest fall. Consequently there has been a substantial …

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall …

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the … bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature … of income distribution and possibly lead to multiple steady states. The existence, under some conditions, of a dynamic …

liberalization is accompanied by reduced income inequality in low-income countries. Simulation results also suggest that relatively …

their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that … only income relative to others was related to well-being. In this paper, we review the evidence to assess the importance of … absolute and relative income in determining well-being. Our research suggests that absolute income plays a major role in …

higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

racial gaps such as those in income, employment, and education. Much of the current racial gap in well-being can be explained …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …