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Paradox lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450390
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly … for income evaluations turns inward. "Financial hardship", the shortfall from one's own previous peak income, takes over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148
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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391355
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The Easterlin paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372750
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 209 (2023), pp. 200-204
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Happiness and economic growth: The evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are … satisfaction has not improved. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330131
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Paradox Lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451233
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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387899
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Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the … others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly … for income evaluations turns inward. "Financial hardship", the shortfall from one's own previous peak income, takes over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658224
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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497824