Direct evidence on income comparisons and their welfare effects

By Claudia Senik. 2009

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Gender and Life Satisfaction in the UK (2011, background): “Lucas 2008; Gulcin Mentesoglu and Maarten Vendrik 2009; Claudia Senik 2009 ).”
Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China (2012, background): “As explained before, the de nition of a reference group and the "typical income" inside this group, yki , are crucial aspects in the present exercise (see Senik, 2009, for a discussion).”
Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being (2015, background): “matter for SWB (Clark et al., 2008; Easterlin, 1995; Senik, 2009).”
The Economics of Happiness (2021, background): “Additionally, both own income and the income of a reference group (i.e., relative income) matter for happiness and life satisfaction (Clark et al. 2008; Senik, 2009).”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “And indeed in the empirical application, D’Ambrosio and Frick (2012) showed that individual satisfaction is positively 7 Senik (2009) uses 2006 LiTS data, covering 28 post-transition countries (plus Turkey).”
Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe (2010, background): “In a very recent paper, Senik (2009) exploits a survey of 25 post-Transition countries (LITS), where people were explicitly asked to compare their current living standard with that of various groups of people that they used to know before the transition started (i.e. before 1989).”
Status Concerns as a Motive for Crime? (2015, background): “When it comes to the identification of the reference point, there is evidence that the respect and admiration resulting from face-to-face interactions with groups such as colleagues and friends are 4 a major determinant of status concerns (see Anderson et al. 2012, Clark and Senik 2010, Senik 2009).”
What Makes Entrepreneurs Happy? Determinants of Satisfaction Among Founders (2012, background): “Recent studies on satisfaction that compare the actual situation with what could be expected, include Stutzer (2004); Senik (2009) and Boes et al. (2010).”