-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social contacts and family, health, and income. Among the four domains, social …. Income has the lowest impact. As in other work, we find that American response styles differ from the Dutch in that Americans … inclined to stay in the middle of the scale. Although for both Americans and the Dutch, income is the least important …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …. -- absolute and relative welfare ; income ; status consumption ; signaling model ; conspicuous consumption ; adaptation ; internal …

Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own … income. 2) In the West German Socio-Economic Panel since 1984 the same istrue but with life satisfaction as the dependant …

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance …

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …

This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation … and reference income (defined as the income of one's professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of … United States. Whereas "jealousy" is dominant in the former, "ambition" is even stronger in the latter. -- income …

commuting choice using data on subjective wellbeing. People show substantial adaptation to a higher labor income but not to …