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Happiness adaptation to high income : Evidence from German panel data

Luo, Jianbo - In: Economics letters 206 (2021), pp. 1-4

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Household finances and well-being : an empirical analysis of comparison effects

Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel - 2014

-being. Initially, the empirical analysis, based on a large nationally representative panel survey, aims to ascertain the impact of the … household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … financial satisfaction and subjective prosperity. Taking into account monetary factors in addition to income, the results …

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 95-101

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015 - Substantially rev. version

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using 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...

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