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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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Income inequality and well-being in the U.S. : evidence of geographic-scale- and measure-dependence
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Graham, Carol - 2016
U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526744
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Local neighbors as positives, regional neighbors as negatives : competing channels in the relationship between others' income, health, and happiness
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Graham, Carol - 2016
We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income hypothesis (RIH) and altruism). The relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476321
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Coresidency, ethnicity, and happiness of China's rural elders
Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - In: Eurasian geography and economics 56 (2015) 1, pp. 70-88
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392382
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Subjective economic well-being in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - 2002
findings in happiness regressions, such as a negative but u-shaped age effect, positive influences of education and relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494190
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Material well-being and happiness in transition countries
Družić, Marko; Majstorović, Martina - In: Zagreb international review of economics & business 20 (2017) 2, pp. 21-32
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774488
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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902869
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Can we - and should we - measure well-being?
White, Mark D. - In: Review of social economy : publication of the … 71 (2013) 4, pp. 526-533
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338846
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Coresidency, ethnicity, and happiness of China's rural elders
Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
concentrations of ethnic minority populations. We also explore one consequence of coresidency, reported happiness. We find that … of happiness, we find again that socioeconomic and demographic conditions matter, as does ethnicity. Controlling all else …, coresidency increases the happiness of the elderly by about 28 percent. Moreover, the unobserved characteristics that drive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358242
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Explaining the linkages of happiness construct : a theoretical and empirical study on Indian population
Shrotryia, V. K.; Singh, Shashank Vikram Pratap - In: International journal of happiness and development 8 (2023) 2, pp. 102-127
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443729