Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

Usually, it is expected that income increases life satisfaction. In recent years tough, research emerged that shows how … subjective well-being, including satisfaction, influences objective measures, as for example income. This would then require … explicit identification strategies for estimating effects of income on life satisfaction. I address this issue using German …

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income …, using a number of assumptions, we are able to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income. We obtain …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …

) showed that higher income individuals are less generous than poorer individuals only if they reside in a U.S. state with … major finding before readily accepting it as evidence, we analyzed the effect of the interaction between income and …

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …

attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to rightwing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position … differences in the mechanism: Misperception triggers income dissatisfaction for both men and women, but the former are much more …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …