Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any … polarization we allow compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, where a …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …: for a given number of years in poverty, satisfaction is lower when the years are linked together. As such, poverty …

that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any … polarization we allow compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, where a …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …