's happiness is more valued by female respondents. Satisfaction with household compared to personal income has a larger effect on …Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper … examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions …

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than …

. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …

asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction. Using individual-level SWB data allows us to control for several … having a significant positive effect on self-reported life-satisfaction. Implications for researchers and policymakers are …

self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well … substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both …

they interact the most often. -- Income comparisons ; relative income ; reference groups ; happiness ; redistribution …

the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms … satisfaction measures depend on relative deprivation, as well as on other determinants. As for the second objective, we first …

opinion of the individual, rich or poor, on poverty. This approach differs from the objective approach to poverty, which … defines poverty according to the opinion of experts. Three subjective poverty lines are presented: one the Financial … Satisfaction Poverty Line, two the Leyden Poverty Line, and three the Subjective Well-Being Poverty Line. The first two poverty …