variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on … whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their … relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative …

income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to …-migration relationship appears to be more robust than the income-migration relationship. At the country level, national average SWB better … indicates international migration desires for rich countries, while income performs better for poor countries. We thus …

freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We estimate a model for …

U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … SWB data from the U.S. Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index and income inequality data from the American Community Survey …-dependent and measure-dependent: income inequality is SWB-diminishing in large regions for all measures, SWB-diminishing in small …

-Economic Panel, I test the hypothesis that material interests, proxied by the effects of individual and reference income on well … greater material interests, whereas the negative effect of income comparisons on well-being is eliminated for individuals …, since social capital moderates the importance of income for well-being on individual level, the well-being gap between …