This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over … the past years. More importantly, individuals who report their income to be lower than their neighbours in the village …

regression is used to analyse the effects of socio-demographic, economic, health, instrumental activities of daily living, family … satisfaction include respondent's sex, education, place of residence, self-rated health status, cognitive ability (using mini …=-0.068, 95%CI = -.093--.043), and depression (ß=-0.463, 95%CI = -.644--.282), the overall effect of self-rated health …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …