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Group-specific redistribution, inequality, and subjective well-being in China

Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022

Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China's urban, rural, and migrant populations. Using narrowly defined reference...

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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: March 18, 2013

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...

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Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being Across Reference Groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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Income and Happiness Across Europe : Do Reference Values Matter?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2021

life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the …

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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation : An Empirical Link

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2021

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …

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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018

John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...

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The relationship between subjective wellbeing and subjective wellbeing inequality: taking ordinality and skewness seriously

Grimes, Arthur L.; Jenkins, Stephen; Tranquilli, Florencia - 2020

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than …

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Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification

Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - 2008

Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By … the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West … Germany was slightly less than that before unification. In West Germany life satisfaction was fairly constant before …

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Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018

We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...

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Recoupling economic and social prosperity

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

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

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