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. Conforming to … the Easterlin paradox, higher income always correlates with higher happiness, except in one case: whether national income …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. There is no evidence of adaptation within a … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …: for a given number of poverty spells, satisfaction is lower when the spells are concatenated: poverty persistence reduces …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

always has a greater welfare effect than out-performing it (in absolute value). Comparisons which reduce satisfaction also … increase the demand for income redistribution, but there, the relative impact of subjective ranking is preponderant. …

-being depends on own income and reference income, where reference income is defined as the income of professional peers. It uncovers … States. Whereas in the old Europe, the income of my reference group exerts a negative effect on my individual welfare, it has …

We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the GSOEP to test for social … correlated with own satisfaction. Own BMI is positively correlated with satisfaction in thin men, and negatively correlated with … satisfaction after some threshold. Critically, this latter threshold increases with partner's BMI when the individual is overweight …

and negative effects for middle household income families. We find similar negative effects on life satisfaction for both … with it higher income, independence and bargaining power. Yet a decrease in women's subjective well-being over previous … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …