A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only … self-assessed discrete happiness data have been used for research into the determinants of happiness. However, distribution …

This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that … income rank that is higher than that of their parents. The effect is asymmetric with regard to parents, as these seem not to …

High parental income, while undeniably causing benefits for a child in terms of better access to education and more … favorable labor market outcomes, may at the same time increase a child's income aspirations and thereby reduce financial … satisfaction, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between þnancial satisfaction and parental income …

Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …