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Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - 2009
income. 2) In the West German Socio-Economic Panel since 1984 the same istrue but with life satisfaction as the dependant … variable. We also use the Panel to compare the effect of income comparisons and of adaptation as factors explaining the stable … - further supporting the view that comparisons matter. 4) Finally, for a panel of European countries since 1973 we estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600854
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The Marginal Utility of Income
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2007
inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600696
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The Marginal Utility of Income
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018703
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600858
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Late-Life Decline in Well-Being across Adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US: Something Is Seriously Wrong at the End of Life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Mayraz, Guy; Hidajat, Mira; … - 2010
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600928
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017414
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Late-Life Decline in Well-Being across Adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US: Something Is Seriously Wrong at the End of Life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Mayraz, Guy; Hidajat, Mira; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008553188
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Mental illness and unhappiness
Layard, Richard; Chisholm, Dan; Patel, Vikram; Saxena, … - 2013
This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included with a six-year lag. It explains more of the variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326750
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Flèche, Sarah; Layard, Richard - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314547
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Mental Illness and Unhappiness
Layard, Richard; Chisholm, Dan; Patel, Vikram; Saxena, … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included with a six-year lag. It explains more of the variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787001