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Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...

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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …

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Poverty in the Russian Federation

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …

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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …

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Wellbeing evidence for the assessment of progress

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence; Peichl, Andreas - 2016

In recent years considerable interest has developed in going 'beyond GDP' to develop measures of economic progress which are more explicitly based on human wellbeing. This work has been inspired, in part, by Sen's non-utilitarian approach to welfare economics, but has been constrained by a lack...

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Chronic material deprivation and long-term poverty in Europe in the pre-crisis period

Papadopoulos, Fotis; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

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Local neighbors as positives, regional neighbors as negatives : competing channels in the relationship between others' income, health, and happiness

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Graham, Carol - 2016

We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income hypothesis (RIH) and altruism). The relationship is...

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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; 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 deprivation in Tanzania

Atsebi, Bédhat Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019

This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...

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