characteristics were identified to play a role in explaining the differences in reported satisfaction between the two groups: age …, gender, family size, having a life partner. Although, the self reported satisfaction with the family situation seems to be …

China is undergoing a campaign which is called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty … from rural China until 2020. Though poverty in rural China has been studied intensively in different objective dimensions …, little attention has been paid to poverty line settings and subjective poverty, which are hinged to the policy effects. In …

relationship between education and life satisfaction beyond the effect education might have through other variables such as income … positional concerns. I discover a positive relationship between education and life satisfaction, indicating that education has a …

wellbeing measures—life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested—and four negative wellbeing variables … ranks lowest—just below South Sudan. The Nordic countries that traditionally rank high using life satisfaction do not rank …

materialism and life satisfaction. In contrast, the macroeconomic literature implies a positive relationship between material … consumption and economic growth. That is, materialism may be both good and bad. We develop a model that reconciles these two … contrasting viewpoints by asserting that materialism may lead to life dissatisfaction when materialistic people evaluate their …