Relative-income effects on subjective well-being in the cross-section

By Michael McBride. 2001

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Happiness and loss aversion : is utility concave or convex in relative income? (2007, background): “In addition, there will be a less strong influence from wider groups like the person's community or region of residence (Diener et al., 1993; Stutzer, 2004; Luttmer, 2005), the person's cohort (McBride, 2001), or the person's state or country (Easterlin, 1995; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004).”
Retirement and Subjective Well-Being (2011, neutral): “See e.g. Clark and Oswald (1994), Frey and Stutzer (2000), Frijters (2000), Di Tella et al. (2001), Easterlin (2001), McBride (2001), Ravallion and Lokshin (2001), Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2005), van Praag (2007), and Layard et al. (2008) for further references and discussions.”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, methodology): “…(2005) calculates comparison income as an average within fifty cells defined by sex, age and education in six years of German GSOEP data; McBride (2001) uses 1994 data from the General Social Survey, and defines comparison income as average earnings of the individual’s cohort, defined…”
Building Financial Satisfaction (2006, background): “McBride (2001) includes in the reference group of each individual all people in USA”
Cross-Racial Envy and Underinvestment in South Africa (2006, background): “…perceived satisfaction (or happiness) is often positively correlated to the perceived relative income position in a reference group (Clark and Oswald, 1996; McBride, 2001; Solnick and Hemenway, 1998), income inequality can affect individuals’ well-being (Festinger, 1954; Frank, 1985; Pollak, 1976).”
How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness (2004, methodology): “The ordered probit model was used by Blanchflower and Oswald (2000a), Clark and Oswald (1994), Plug (1997), Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2002), Frey and Stutzer (1999; 2000), Hartog and Oosterbeek (1998), McBride (2001), Pradhan and Ravaillon (2000), van Praag et al. (2003) and Wottiez and Theeuwes (1998).”
Direct democracy and life satisfaction revisited: new evidence for Switzerland (2008, background): “Positive distances in economic status relative to that of a reference group, such as average status within a country, have consistently beneficial effects on personal happiness ( McBride 2001; D’Ambrosio and Frick 2004; Ferrer-i-Carbonell 2005).”
Relative pay and job satisfaction: some new evidence (2003, background): “Subjective well-being has become a topic of increasing interest among economists and is now regarded as something worthy of empirical investigation (Clark and Oswald 1994; Blanchflower and Oswald 1997; McBride 2001; Van Praag et al. 2002; Frey and Stutzer 2002).1.”
A Short Introduction to Subjective Well-being: Measurement, Correlates and Policy Uses (2008, background): “9 For further evidence on the importance of both relative and absolute income see, amongst others, Clark and Oswald (1996), Diener et al. (1995), Easterlin (1995) and McBride (2001).”