This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random …. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual partners. The typical American has sexual intercourse 2-3 times a month …

We study quot;habituationquot; to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people … income and status and compare the long run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status …) during the four years following an income (status) change. In the short-run (current year) a one standard deviation increase …

of an agent's level of consumption depends on his legal income and initial level of wealth, as conspicuous consumption by … consumption monitoring and wealth is observed, the effect of higher wealth on equilibrium bribes is ambiguous (and that the …There are a large number of cases where corruption has been discovered investigating levels of consumption that appear …

consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … the relationship between income-based and consumption-based poverty measures. We find that the poverty rate based on …

mothers. Our earlier work did not show that income and consumption differ in practice. Here we further examine data quality … issues and show that important conclusions about recent trends depend on whether one uses consumption or income. Changes in … precision. Finally, we demonstrate the flaws in a recent paper that compares income and consumption data …

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in … about well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear …

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well …

of everyone else. According to the income comparisons model, this change in transparency can widen the gap in well … this effect relates to changes in self-perceptions of relative income. We provide back-of-the-envelope estimates of the … importance of income comparisons, and discuss implications for the ongoing debate on transparency policies …

Business income is important in the upper tail of the personal income distribution, but the extent to which it is … captured by measures of personal income varies substantially across tax regimes. Using linked individual and firm data from … Norway, we are able to attribute business income to personal owners as it accrues rather than when it is realized. This …

measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …