suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social … and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper … activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social … and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper … activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social … and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper … activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a variety of economic and social activities … and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper …, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

paper, we summarize some recent findings with respect to geographical comparisons of income, unemployment, health and … religion, and present some new results regarding spatial spillovers in marriage. The resulting predictions regarding spatial …

presence of relative income terms in the utility function. Income may be evaluated relative to others (social comparison) or to … oneself in the past (habituation). We review the evidence on relative income from the subjective well-being literature. We … in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has typically found positive correlations between individual income …

; unemployment ; marriage ; divorce ; health ; religion ; policy … activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- Comparison ; habituation ; income … suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …

; unemployment ; marriage ; divorce ; health ; religion ; policy … activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- comparison ; habituation ; income … suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …

This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and … higher levels of life satisfaction, and that religion does insure against some adverse life events. All denominations suffer … less psychological harm from unemployment than do the non-religious; equally both Catholics and Protestants are less hurt …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …