, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income …

Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …

curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction distributions for six countries reveal a substantial number of unanimous …

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 …

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 …

population in Germany receives basic social benefits; however, according to the Laeken indicators used across Europe, over 20 per … cent of the population are at risk of poverty. A glance at the different methods of calculation explains this large …

they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here …, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with … satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen's d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general …

individual life satisfaction. Our estimates indicate, a primary breadwinner wifedecreases spousal individual happiness by roughly … income comparison forindividual happiness. Wives (barely) outearning their husbands seem to signal ’competition’. …This paper applies the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household in-come comparison on …