The accepted view among psychologists and, increasingly, economists 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...

Currently, we observe in the social and behavioral sciences an increasing demand on complex longitudinal household survey data for national and cross-national analyses. The state of the art (for national as well as international comparative data collections) provides two types of solutions:...