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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 …

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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...

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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...

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The Easterlin Paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

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The Easterlin paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020

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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...

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