well-being in developing countries, including China, even in the presence of sustained income growth. This is notably due …-thy-neighbour effect in happiness. Wealth comparisons in China are exacerbated by the gender imbalance, as the competition for brides …

This paper uses Japanese data which includes measures of self-declared satisfaction, reference-group income, and the … colleagues, and compare their incomes more. The relationship between satisfaction and others' income is negative, and more … cell-mean income in explaining satisfaction, and would arguably make a useful addition to many existing surveys. …

adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over … adult life satisfaction at all ages. Of these, emotional health is the strongest. Childhood cognitive performance is more … important than good conduct in explaining adult life satisfaction in the earlier NCDS cohort, whereas this ranking is inverted …