income effect differing between richer and poor individuals. The analysis uses a self-reported measure of satisfaction with …This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or … happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main …

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly … for income evaluations turns inward. "Financial hardship", the shortfall from one's own previous peak income, takes over …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …

We analyzed whether individuals reared in institutions differ in their general life satisfaction from people raised in …, individuals reared in institutions reported lower general life satisfaction in the manner of a dose response relationship … increasing age the association between institutional rearing and lower general life satisfaction decreased. Further, the …

domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We estimate a model for …