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Money, well-being and loss aversion : does an income loss have a greater effect on well-being than an equivalent income gain?

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Attitudes to income inequality : experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2014

attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the … the individual's disinterested evaluation of income inequality; on the contrary, the second view reflects self …

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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...

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Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2011

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …

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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468180

Adaptation and the Easterlin Paradox

Clark, Andrew E. - 2015

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Rising aspirations dampen satisfaction

Clark, Andrew E.; Kamesaka, Akiko; Tamura, Teruyuki - 2015

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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014 - This version: January 2014

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Poverty profiles and well-being : panel evidence from Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2015 - This version: February 2015

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...

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When experienced and decision utility concur : the case of income comparisons Andrew E. Clark; Claudia Senik ; Katsunori Yamada

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Yamada, Katsunori - 2015

While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to … others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative importance of own and reference-group income … regarding happiness analysis, and in particular with respect to the measurement of reference-group income. We here use data from …

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