positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …

welfare on individual well-being constitutes a significant issue. This paper studies the disposable income and poverty among … disposable income and other financial and labor market outcomes and thereby give a well-founded analysis of the financial well … poverty. We conclude that leaving welfare is not always associated with becoming financially better off, and post welfare well …

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 … children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …

Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard ordered response models, the … probability effects by design, and therefore limit the analysis of distributional aspects of a change in income, that is, the … study of whether the income effect depend on a person's happiness. In this paper we pinpoint the shortcomings of standard …

-2004 shows that income has only a minor effect on positive subjective well-being but a large effect on negative well-being. …

life in 130 countries. Although a very solid relationship is found between satisfaction and income (both across and within … higher incomes tend to be reflected in greater satisfaction, an increase in the income of the social group to which an … individual belongs has the opposite effect. The conflictive relationship between satisfaction and income has implications for …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …