The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …

: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other ….e. the gaps between the individual's income and the incomes of all individuals richer/poorer than him. Operationalizing both …

Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are … initial level, life satisfaction has not improved. …

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. Consistent with … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …

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

consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income … and housing wealth both affect life satisfaction but that the influence of income is much larger. … particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular …

north- and particularly the southwest. Low village income results in long-distance migration for many ethnic minorities, but …

countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce … with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the …