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How will multifaceted trust impact domestic travel during the COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being? : a comparison between Korea and the US
Shin, Hakseung; Kang, Juhyun; Park, Changhwan; Lee, Hoon - In: Tourism management perspectives : TMP 44 (2022), pp. 1-12
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148
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Better off? : distributional comparisons for ordinal data about personal well-being
Jenkins, Stephen - In: New Zealand economic papers 54 (2020) 3, pp. 211-238
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012384434
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Inequality comparisons with ordinal data
Jenkins, Stephen - 2019
Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction...
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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...
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Geography of happiness : configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations
Brulé, Gaël; Veenhoven, Ruut - In: International journal of happiness and development 2 (2015) 2, pp. 101-117
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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902869
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015 - Substantially rev. version
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344536
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346880
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347274