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Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency to compare one’s own opinions and abilities with those of other people, raising the question of whether social comparisons are psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons...
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income, demographics and social capital. The increase in social capital predicts the largest positive change in subjective … well-being. Income growth, also predicts a substantial change in subjective well-being, but it is compensated for about … three fourths by the joint negative predictions due to income comparison and income adaptation. Finally, we find that aging …
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China is undergoing a campaign which is called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty from rural China until 2020. Though poverty in rural China has been studied intensively in different objective dimensions, little attention has been paid to poverty line...
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In this paper we use data from a population survey on quality of life dimensions conducted in Uruguay to analyze the self reported well-being among workers and non workers. Along with the literature, we find that the probability of being happy is greater for workers than non-workers....
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findings suggest that there are concerns for relative standing for different goods and life domains such as income, cars … relationship between education and life satisfaction beyond the effect education might have through other variables such as income …, health, or occupational prestige. Additionally, I consider the possibility that the consumption of education is subject to …
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predictive economic factors, such as higher income or improved job status, are often the focus of applied subjective well …
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This study examines the relationship between income and subjective well-being among rural-to-urban migrant workers in … China. Our analysis of a recent survey uncovered a U-shaped relationship between income and overall life satisfaction for … migrant workers in Shanghai. Furthermore, the positive correlation is curvilinear, showing that increasing income yields …
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