This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or … the distance between own income and the income of the reference group, and asymmetry of comparisons, i.e. the comparison … income effect differing between richer and poor individuals. The analysis uses a self-reported measure of satisfaction with …

, rich or poor). The result could be a cardinal ranking of country of birth satisfaction units, how strongly someone would …

increases monotonically and progressively with age. Our results are similar for alternative measures of SWB (life satisfaction …

Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …