income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …

In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and … effects social treadmill has on life satisfaction for humans with high income. A key result of the fixed-effect-regression is … the following: There is a significant effect relative income has on the contentment with life for affluent people, whereas …

individual life satisfaction. Our estimates indicate, a primary breadwinner wifedecreases spousal individual happiness by roughly … income comparison forindividual happiness. Wives (barely) outearning their husbands seem to signal ’competition’. …This paper applies the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household in-come comparison on …

community as well as policymakers. This Weekly Report investigates the income, work, and health satisfaction of the German … satisfaction as well as income, work, and health satisfaction have either increased or remained constant since 2004. However …, differences between groups, some quite significant, still remain, especially in terms of health satisfaction. Comparatively, low-income …

-resolution meteorological data, we introduce a new proxy for income uncertainty - mean-preserving rainfall variability - and estimate that an … increase in income uncertainty is associated with reductions in objective consumption and subjective well-being (SWB …

movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … representative longitudinal data for Germany (1992- 2019) with about 570,000 observations for more than 88,000 individuals aged 16 …