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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 95-101

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness

Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...

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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness

Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 22 (2012) 2, pp. 331-344

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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: March 18, 2013

relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative … comparisons and SWB. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for co-workers, people in the same …

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