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age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
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income and parental education) remain good predictors of well-being over 50 years later. In terms of the proximal covariates …
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We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we … take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of … German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own labour income is perceived to be unfair is significantly negatively …
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This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to … strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform income into well-being in the same way. We show that both individual … marginal effect of income on well-being across classes will be reflected in both behaviour and preferences for redistribution. …
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