age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …

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 …

. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …: those who received higher income offers or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given …

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 …

activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- comparison ; habituation ; income …

While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to … others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative importance of own and reference-group income … regarding happiness analysis, and in particular with respect to the measurement of reference-group income. We here use data from …

This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to … strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform income into well-being in the same way. We show that both individual … marginal effect of income on well-being across classes will be reflected in both behaviour and preferences for redistribution. …

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 …

income and parental education) remain good predictors of well-being over 50 years later. In terms of the proximal covariates …