Despite some improvements in recent years, poverty and food insecurity remain widespread and the main challenges in … indeed strongly associated with the household per-capita income and expenditure and with various triangulating measures of … strong evidence that, in rural Ethiopia, aspirations are positively associated with satisfaction in life and/or happiness …

-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using income and consumption approaches focusing on poverty and on subjective assessment using … happiness approach. Additionally, a probit model was used for a poverty assessment. The survey revealed that flooded farmers … were amongst the poorest in the study system. Seven variables determined poverty in this study: household size, location …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … registration identity) and education status, household assets, the influence of past and future income and province dummies, we …

the lower income bound of the middle class (75% of the national median income) and not the poverty line (60% of the median …This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in … European countries. Using the special module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions micro-data on …

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any …) polarization compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, is evaluated …

This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of … life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …