measures of economic welfare based on household income or consumption. Survey respondents undoubtedly hold diverse ideas about …

transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails …

-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a …"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self … reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …

the satisfaction and deprivation measures, satisfaction and deprivation add up to the mean income for the population as a …"In a relative deprivation framework, unless inequality is reduced, growth is associated with both higher satisfaction … literature, knowledge of the population's mean income and Lorenz curve is all that is needed to analyze a distribution, so that …

, the relationship between competing policy objectives of reducing poverty, maintaining growth, improving social cohesion … of the planet ' s ecosystem requires a reduction in poverty and inequality at all levels: local, national, and …