with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …

equivalent of the costs of the extra time stress is very large. While the departure of a child from the home reduces parents …