We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. There is no evidence of adaptation within a … poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. Third, poverty scars: those who have been …

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 contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality … indices to the exact nature of the upper tail of the income distribution. This leads us to study two non-standard bootstraps …

The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty … and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question … trade policies within a global policy framework so as to enhance growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The method …

, increasing opportunities to trade are likely to affect income distribution and whether or not increasing openness to trade is …

of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a …Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and by this way … is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate …

direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three …-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower levels of subjective well-being and a greater demand for income … redistribution. The rich compare less and are more happy than average when they do, which latter is consistent with relative income …