satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general …

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 …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …

better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial … situation during childhood on quality of life after retirement as well as the mediating role of later life health, educational … level, and income in this association. Moreover, this study is the first to compare these pathways across European regions …

. Contrary to previous research, we find no health impact when TV consumption increases. For life satisfaction, we even find … economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness … experiment in West Germany, where people in geographically restricted areas received commercial TV via terrestrial frequencies …

This paper applies the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household in-come comparison on … individual life satisfaction. Our estimates indicate, a primary breadwinner wifedecreases spousal individual happiness by roughly … nine per cent. To state the economic significance,ae70,000 increase in external, peer reference income corresponds to a …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …

up to 7,812 people living in Germany from 1984 to 2000, we illustrate the approach by estimating the size of the effect … on happiness of adaptation to income and to status. We cannot reject the null hypothesis that people adapt totally to … income after four years. By comparison, significant status effects remain after this time. In the short-run (current year) a …