personal characteristics, country and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support …. Losing one level of freedom, equivalent to a shift from the US to Turkey, increases support for revolt by 4 percentage points …

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income …, using a number of assumptions, we are able to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income. We obtain …

scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …. This suggests that income is a poor proxy for satisfaction but it does not provide firm evidence for the existence of … to rising incomes but less so falling incomes. The paper concludes that satisfaction with income is influenced by …

responsible for elderly people's living standards. Secondly, this article analyses private and public income transfers to elderly … to the income of the elderly households, particularly poorer households, while public transfers do not make any …

This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea …, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures by population groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of data limitations). According to national family income and expenditure surveys, income inequality …

based on individuals’ ratings of their happiness or life satisfaction rather than on their preferences. In the context of a …

events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the …

characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities … areas with a larger proportion of own ethnic group promotes well-being. We find that satisfaction is lower among minorities …, ceteris paribus, but area concentration is associated with higher life satisfaction for certain groups. We discuss the …