Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: February 2014
This paper analyzes the e ffect of regional income inequality within countries on individual life satisfaction. We use … from 1981-2008. Regional income inequality is measured by the coeffi cient of variation of regional GDP per capita. We find … that higher regional income inequality leads to lower life satisfaction in OECD countries. In non-OECD countries, we find …