level of life-satisfaction: income comparisons emerge as much the more important. 3) When in our U.S. analysis we introduce …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 …

European countries. We do so by estimating country-panel equations for mean life satisfaction that include trend and cyclical … between per capita GDP and life satisfaction over time which is positive for poorer countries, but flat (or negative) for …

income. 2) In the West German Socio-Economic Panel since 1984 the same istrue but with life satisfaction as the dependant … level of life-satisfaction: income comparisons emerge as much the more important. 3) When in our U.S. analysis we introduce …Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And …

application to the income-consumption relationship, using monthly US time series. Evidence is found to support the claim that the … series ; business cycles ; conditional distribution ; consumption-income relationship ; copula ; multivariate time …