U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … SWB data from the U.S. Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index and income inequality data from the American Community Survey …, and health measures) to examine the consistency of the relationship. We find that the relationship is both scale …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …

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 … subjective well-being (SWB) data from the U.S. Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and geographically-based median-income data …

community as well as policymakers. This Weekly Report investigates the income, work, and health satisfaction of the German … satisfaction as well as income, work, and health satisfaction have either increased or remained constant since 2004. However …, differences between groups, some quite significant, still remain, especially in terms of health satisfaction. Comparatively, low-income …

movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …