. Compared to their neighbors with the same occupation and income score at baseline, program participants earned 4 percent more …

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 …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … 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 …

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 …

growth rates suggest that despite the Great Depression real per capita personal income was not falling but was rising by 0 …

trends in real income per capita are consistent with trends in recreational budget shares and to establish trends in … income households experienced a larger increase in living standards than higher income households, perhaps because of … decreases in the work hours of lower relative to higher income workers, technological change that lowered the price of …

overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how …

Income differences across US cities are well documented, but little is known about the level of standard of living in … estimates of the standard of living by commuting zone for households in a given income or education group, and we study how they … and income group. To measure local prices, we build income-specific consumer price indices by commuting zone. We uncover …