adults are significantly more likely to have died five years later if they are poor. The direction of causality is unclear …

adults are significantly more likely to have died five years later if they are poor. The direction of causality is unclear …

adults are significantly more likely to have died five years later if they are poor. The direction of causality is unclear …

indeed strongly associated with the household per-capita income and expenditure and with various triangulating measures of …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … registration identity) and education status, household assets, the influence of past and future income and province dummies, we …

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … and in the construction of income poverty lines that uniformly reflect the costs of the basic requirements of human beings …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of income, relative income, monetary and non … between wellbeing and income. Being further below the poverty line – estimated using the depth-ofpoverty measure – was found … to have a significant negative effect on happiness. On the other hand, the income of the reference group was found to be …

Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decompose poverty into chronic and transient … to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50% transient poverty point to the … policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to rural income …