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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … show that adolescents and young adults who report higher life satisfaction or positive affect grow up to earn significantly … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is …
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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 impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the …
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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
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residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals …
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Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again 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 … well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear-log and …
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suggested by the theory of incomplete markets, we differentiate between the effects of persistent and transitory income shocks …We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a …. In line with this theory, we find that persistent shocks have a significant impact on happiness while transitory shocks …
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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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This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …
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