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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons : indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824319
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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895798
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income : Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155599
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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635744
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203865
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Ignorance is not bliss: On the role of education in subjective well-being
Yakovlev, Pavel; Leguizamon, Susane - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 6, pp. 806-815
This study estimates the impact of education on self-reported happiness across 50 American states using the recently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603379
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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons : indirect evidence from immigrants’ return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857716
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
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 … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148
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The relationship between status and happiness : evidence from the caste system in rural India
Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2017
A large number of empirical studies have investigated the link between social status and happiness, yet in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738892
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Decreasing incomes increase selfishness
Gagnon, Nickolas; Saulle, Riccardo D.; Zaunbrecher, … - 2021
We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First, we investigate the effect of a negative income...
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