ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the …

important effects from a number of demographic variables. -- Satisfaction ; income ; labour market status ; health … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … increases monotonically and progressively with age. Our results are similar for alternative measures of SWB (life satisfaction …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- comparison ; habituation ; income … ; unemployment ; marriage ; divorce ; health ; religion ; policy …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- Comparison ; habituation ; income … ; unemployment ; marriage ; divorce ; health ; religion ; policy …

-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social contacts and family, health, and income. Among the four domains, social … contacts and family have the highest impact on global life satisfaction, followed by job and daily activities and health … substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …

in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has typically found positive correlations between individual income … presence of relative income terms in the utility function. Income may be evaluated relative to others (social comparison) or to … oneself in the past (habituation). We review the evidence on relative income from the subjective well-being literature. We …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime …