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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; 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...
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The relationship between status and happiness : evidence from the caste system in rural India
Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2017
A large number of empirical studies have investigated the link between social status and happiness, yet in …
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Essays on the economics of well-being
Wolf, Tobias - 2021
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The vulnerability aspect of happiness : the European middle class perspective
Benczúr, Péter; Kvedaras, Virmantas - 2023
) is more relevant for individual happiness of middle class members. The aggregate income vulnerability of the middle class … costs in terms of happiness. They therefore support the development of policies to reduce income uncertainty. …This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in …
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Aspirations and income, food security and subjective well-being in rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew; Gerber, Nikolaus - 2016
indeed strongly associated with the household per-capita income and expenditure and with various triangulating measures of … strong evidence that, in rural Ethiopia, aspirations are positively associated with satisfaction in life and/or happiness …
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Subjective well-being approach for testing money illusion-evidence using data from Social Weather Stations
Beja, Edsel L. - In: The Philippine review of economics : a joint … 54 (2017) 1, pp. 47-62
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Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK ; conference paper
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … presented in Stevenson and Wolfers (2008, BROOKINGS PAP ECO AC), we now count three exceptions supporting Easterlin s happiness-income …
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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747819
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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009759758
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Money, well-being and loss aversion : does an income loss have a greater effect on well-being than an equivalent income gain?
Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M.; Banks, James; … - 2014
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