We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … of adaptation within a poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. We cannot … identify any cause of poverty entry which explains the overall lack of poverty adaptation. …

asymmetries in adaptation is proposed as an important driver. The theoretical analysis is consistent with econometric evidence on … commuting choice using data on subjective well-being. People show substantial adaptation to a higher labor income but not to …

We look for evidence of adaptation in well-being to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data …. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of a child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete, whereas this is not the case … functioning. As such, the phenomenon of adaptation may be a general one, rather than being only found in German data or using …

Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This … on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation to severe disability, however, is shown to be incomplete. The …

reference to measure the degree of adaptation to widowhood. In the second step, the life satisfaction trajectories of both …

may explain the fertility behavior of first generation immigrants; namely, selection, disruption and adaptation. The …