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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: March 18, 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738124
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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being : conference paper
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: February 18, 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342250
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Economic approaches to understanding change in happiness
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2014
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective … well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348918
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Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction
Hajek, André - 2013
This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational autonomy or employment status and also the mentioned life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209215
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Income, happiness, and the disutility of labor
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009
-monotonic form. Our results suggest that the impact of working hours on happiness is rather small and exhibits an inverse U-shape. We …. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; income ; disutility of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876027
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Happiness in Europe : cross-country differences in the determinants of subjective well-being
Pedersen, Peder J.; Dall Schmidt, Torben - 2009
The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the relationship between life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909280
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152425
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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: March 18, 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722408
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and … indirect effects that carry the influence from happiness to income. Significant mediating pathways include a higher probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675122
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Happiness and loss aversion : when social participation dominates comparison
Vendrik, Maarten C. (contributor);  … - 2006
A central finding in happiness research is that a person's income relative to the average income in her social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348533