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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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We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well …
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activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- comparison ; habituation ; income …
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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 …
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Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in … about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear …
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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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