Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

disposable income and a gain of leisure time - and the psychological (and cultural) notion of the lonely, sad empty nester. This …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

wide range of potentially confounding factors, including maternal education, employment, household income and maternal …

Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307 …,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison … has changed in the process of economic development, and how such changes are related to changes in the nature of income …

Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests … variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …