that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated with both happiness and … life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the …Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the link between income and subjective well-being. We find …

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … vary in religiosity between secular and ultra-orthodox. We find a significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …

between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China’s urban, rural, and … significantly impact Chinese people. By contrast, a larger income gap between urban and rural residents is positively correlated … their own future income. Compared to migrants, however, our results hint at a negative status effect for the rural residents …

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered … happiness or other variables are detectable based on response time data without making distributional assumptions. In our survey …

higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that … only income relative to others was related to well-being. In this paper, we review the evidence to assess the importance of … absolute and relative income in determining well-being. Our research suggests that absolute income plays a major role in …

income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An …