income effect differing between richer and poor individuals. The analysis uses a self-reported measure of satisfaction with …

that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over …

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 …: for a given number of years in poverty, satisfaction is lower when the years are linked together. As such, poverty …

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than … appropriate for ordinal data, our analysis using the World Values Survey reveals that skewness of the SWL distribution, not only …

to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …