. This entry also briefly discusses: recent history of well-being measurement; what makes people better off in theory; the …

, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes … 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 …

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 …

Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

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

social relations and of the environment, employment, and job satisfaction. In this chapter we survey the economic literature … functionings) approach, the use of subjective life satisfaction measures, and the calculation of equivalent incomes. We discuss the … respected and where in each approach the boundaries of individual responsibility are drawn. We compare the measurement of …

population in Germany receives basic social benefits; however, according to the Laeken indicators used across Europe, over 20 per … cent of the population are at risk of poverty. A glance at the different methods of calculation explains this large …