SWB. In most cases, wealth is more important than income from the perspective of SWB. Theoretical and empirical reasons … since the latter has been measured. For convenience and availability matters, income (what people earn) was mostly used at … the individual level. It is only since recently that data about wealth (what people possess) is available and the links …

theoretical perspective, wealth is a better indication of life-time financial resources, as compared to income which is recorded … at a point in time. More recent research has indicated that wealth, or income and wealth taken together, explain more of … indicate that well-being is associated with both income and wealth, controlling for other known correlates with well …

philanthropy and the use of wealth hold true in other national settings when compared to previous literature on "major donors …." Some results may be more specific to French society, whose relation to money and wealth and to private initiatives for the …