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Beyond the Joneses: Inter-country income comparisons and happiness
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Corrado, Luisa; … - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 45 (2013) C, pp. 187-195
Our paper provides novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the well being of top income neighboring countries have generated negative feelings on a large sample of individuals in the Euro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010682449
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Beyond the Joneses: inter-country income comparisons and happiness
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Giachin, Elena - Econometica - 2010
Our paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income countries have generated progressively more negative feelings on a large sample of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763423
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Beyond the Joneses: Inter-country income comparisons and happiness
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Giachin, Elena - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Our paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income countries have generated progressively more negative feelings on a large sample of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789861
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Beyond the Joneses: inter-country income comparisons and happiness
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Ricca, Elena … - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Perugia - 2010
Our paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income countries have generated progressively more negative feelings on a large sample of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852773
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Life satisfaction and relative income: perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071089
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Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600854
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Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931728
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Does Relative Income Matter?: Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017426
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Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256480
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Does relative income matter? Are the critics right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Do other peoples’ incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071479