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Poverty profiles and well-being : panel evidence from Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2015 - This version: February 2015
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493169
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has fallen in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the “very unhappy” and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126047
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Poverty Profiles and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199854
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Poverty profiles and well-being: Panel evidence from Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2015
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500142
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Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018
We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947084
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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105408
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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2014
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352288
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Attitudes to income inequality : experimental and survey evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2014
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350420
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Chapter 13. Attitudes to Income Inequality : Experimental and Survey Evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 1147-1208). 2015
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes toward the income distribution in a society: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025338
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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252278