life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two … income. The model is estimated using a large German panel data set. …

life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two … income. The model is estimated using a large German panel data set.<P>This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … health we find evidence of a significant positive effect of current income on health. However, after controlling for …

visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The … relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. …

life satisfaction and income utilizing also the panel property of the data. We find an impact from the level of income only … change in income has a significant impact on satisfaction. For all countries in the panel we find a significant impact from … labour force. Further, the level of and change in self-reported health has a strong impact on satisfaction. …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … health we find evidence of a significant positive effect of current income on health. However, after controlling for …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross …. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence …

. This paper addresses these issues and shows that increased climate variability (a proxy for future income uncertainty … indicates that a one standard deviation (7%) increase in climate variability has an equivalent effect on life satisfaction to a … two standard deviation (1-2%) decrease in consumption. This effect is one of the largest determinants of life satisfaction …

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 …