such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in … predicting life satisfaction. We find that income inequality has a negative and significant effect on life satisfaction. This …

terms but widening in absolute terms. Countries in the middle and lower deciles of the world distribution achieved the …

billionaires list, the Global Wealth Report (GWR), and the World Happiness Report, as well as from the World Database on Happiness …

such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens, the author tests the consistency of income … inequality in predicting life satisfaction. The analysis finds that income inequality has a negative and significant effect on … life satisfaction. This result is robust to changes in regressors and estimation choices and also persists across different …