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age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …
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attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the … the individual's disinterested evaluation of income inequality; on the contrary, the second view reflects self …
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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …
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activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- comparison ; habituation ; income …
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We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we … take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of … German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own labour income is perceived to be unfair is significantly negatively …
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income and parental education) remain good predictors of well-being over 50 years later. In terms of the proximal covariates …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
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