. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income …. Crossing the threshold where the wife starts earning more increases the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis by 8-12 per …

a range of health outcomes including mental well being. Three possible explanations for the association have been …