life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the …Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the link between income and subjective well-being. We find … that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated with both happiness and …

Lang (2019). The classical OLS and ordered probit analysis of self-reported life satisfaction of employees from 32 European … show that the observed income effect on subjective well-being is much weaker for the happiness index than for life … satisfaction, especially when controlling for satisfaction of basic needs. Quantile regression analysis brings additional insights …

European countries. We do so by estimating country-panel equations for mean life satisfaction that include trend and cyclical … between per capita GDP and life satisfaction over time which is positive for poorer countries, but flat (or negative) for …

income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed … in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …