ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the …

in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has typically found positive correlations between individual income … presence of relative income terms in the utility function. Income may be evaluated relative to others (social comparison) or to … oneself in the past (habituation). We review the evidence on relative income from the subjective well-being literature. We …

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. …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

paper, we summarize some recent findings with respect to geographical comparisons of income, unemployment, health and …

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 …