poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …