direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three …-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower levels of subjective well-being and a greater demand for income … redistribution. The rich compare less and are more happy than average when they do, which latter is consistent with relative 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 considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …: those who received higher income offers or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given …

effects (i) of education on health, which may be mediated by income, and (ii) of the Job Corps training program, which may …