satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general …

domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We estimate a model for …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However … excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to …

This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to …

parents' self-reported happiness depends positively, albeit not very strongly, on the happiness of adult children who moved …

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other ….e. the gaps between the individual's income and the incomes of all individuals richer/poorer than him. Operationalizing both …

Examined the concurrent and cross-lagged spousal similarity in life satisfaction over a 21-year period. Analyses were … higher than oneyear retest similarity, revealing spousal similarity in the variable component of life satisfaction. Spousal … satisfaction. Finally, there was considerable spousal similarity in the stable component of life satisfaction over 20-years. The …

An adequate theory of happiness or subjective well-being (SWB) needs to link at least three sets of variables: stable … person characteristics (including personality traits), life events and measures of well-being (life satisfaction, positive … satisfaction. Using these data, the paper suggests a major revision to the set point or dynamic equilibrium theory of SWB in order …

We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of … of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom to the fourth income decile. But they do not last very long: the …