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Life satisfaction and relative income: perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271342
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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895798
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income : Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy - 2009
Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155599
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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635744
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203865
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Globalization, poverty, inequality, and insecurity: Some insights from the economics of happiness
Graham, Carol - 2005
standard measures of poverty and inequality and reported assessments of welfare in countries in the process of integrating into … development outcomes, based on evidence from the author’s research on reported wellbeing in Latin America and Russia. – welfare … captured by money metric measures, such as vulnerability to poverty among the near poor and distributional shifts at the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284623
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Between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635339
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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207017
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Local neighbors as positives, regional neighbors as negatives : competing channels in the relationship between others' income, health, and happiness
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Graham, Carol - 2016
We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income hypothesis (RIH) and altruism). The relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476321
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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of social orientation
Gerstorf, Denis; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Löckenhoff, … - 2016
Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450998