This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …

the twentieth century were dominated by the international gold standard. But as a result of World War I, this system was … replaced by the troubled gold exchange standards of the 1920s and 1930s. As a result of World War II the interwar system was … replaced in turn by the Bretton Woods system. And as a result of inflation of the late 1960s, produced in part by America's war …

structural change. There is one-way causality from structural change to growth in the period 1988-2007, whereas there is no …

structural change. There is one-way causality from structural change to growth in the period 1988-2007, whereas there is no …

such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in … predicting life satisfaction. We find that income inequality has a negative and signifcant effect on life satisfaction. This …

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 …