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 … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …

U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … SWB data from the U.S. Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index and income inequality data from the American Community Survey …-dependent and measure-dependent: income inequality is SWB-diminishing in large regions for all measures, SWB-diminishing in small …

traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …

income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to …-migration relationship appears to be more robust than the income-migration relationship. At the country level, national average SWB better … indicates international migration desires for rich countries, while income performs better for poor countries. We thus …