examines the relationship between the partner pay gap, i.e. the difference in earned income between married, co …-resident partners, and life satisfaction. Contrary to previous studies, we investigate the effects of recent changes in relative … reveal that men exhibit an increase in life satisfaction in response to a recent increase in their proportional earnings. For …

This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that … children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …

income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed … in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …

: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …