When information dominates comparison: Learning from Russian subjective panel data

By Claudia Senik. 2002

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Happiness and Productivity (2015, unknown): “A third difficulty is that, strictly speaking, experiment 4 demonstrates that unhappiness is associated with lower 806 Oswald et al. productivity in the additions task.”
Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis (2007, unknown): “Van Praag, B. M. S.; Warnaar, M. F. (1997). ‘The Cost of Children and the Use of Demographic Variables in Consumer Demand’ in M.”
Household finances and well-being in Australia: An empirical analysis of comparison effects☆ (2016, background): “This phenomenon is potentially capturing positive ambition effects and is called the ‘information effect’ by Senik (2004) but was also called the ‘tunnel effect’ by Hirschman and Rothschild (1973).”
Do Danes and Italians Rate Life Satisfaction in the Same Way? Using Vignettes to Correct for Individual‐Specific Scale Biases (2014, unknown): “Yet, a crucial methodological issue inherently limits cross-country comparability: people in similar economic and non-economic conditions might use different benchmarks or scales to evaluate themselves and their well-being (van Praag, 1971; Winkelmann and Winkelmann, 1998; Clark and Oswald, 2002; Fe”
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? (2011, background): “The effect of reference group income is normally negative but a couple of studies have shown it to be positive (Senik, 2004; Kingdon & Knight, 2007).”
Happiness and loss aversion : is utility concave or convex in relative income? (2007, background): “On the other hand, Senik (2004) finds a significantly positive sign for Russian panel data, which she explains by the use of the informational content of changes in other people's incomes in forming one's own income expectations (see also Schyns, 2002).”
Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel (2010, unknown): “Empirical evidence on the effect of relative position using well-being data is presented in Clark and Oswald (1996), Blanchflower and Oswald (2004) and Brown et al. (2008).6 Senik (2004) studies the information content of reference group income.”
Happiness Decomposition: Female Optimism (2016, background): “…and Frijters 2004, Gandelman and Piani 2013, Gerdtham and Johannesson 2001, Hayo and Seifert 2003, Helliwell 2003, Oswald 1997, Powdthavee 2005, Seifert 2003, Senik 2004, Theodossio 1998 and Winkelmann and Winkelmann 1998), reaching a minimum approximately at midlife, between mid and late forties.”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “Some work on British, Japanese, German, and Russian data has appealed to measures of inequality at the regional level (respectively: Clark, 2003; Oshio and Kobayashi, 2010; Schwarze and Härpfer, 2007; Senik, 2004).”