Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies

By Carol Graham, Stefano Pettinato. 2001

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Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “This holds for both developed (see, for example, Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004; Shields and Wheatley Price, 2005) and developing (Graham and Pettinato, 2002; Lelkes, 2006) countries.”
Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach (2002, background): “It is important to state forthrightly that I make no pretense to measuring model variables such as perceived hardship (9) or legitimacy.”
Why Horizontal Inequalities Matter: Some Implications for Measurement. (2005, background): “For example, Kingdon and Knight (2004) found that income of ‘others’ in the local area has positive effect on happiness, while Graham and Pettinato (2002), for Peru, 'find that respondents tend to be more critical of their economic situation when they compare themselves to others in their country…”
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being (2003, unknown): “…of a positive association comes from point-of-time regressions, which invariably find a significant positive association between income and happiness, with or without controls for other factors (Argyle 1999, Blanchflower and Oswald, 2003, Frey and Stutzer, 2002ab, Graham and Pettinato, 2002).”
Insights on Development from the Economics of Happiness (2005, result): “…across countries or over time—has since been supported by several subsequent studies and is known as the Easterlin paradox.2 More recently, Graham and Pettinato (2001) examined data for a sample of 17 developing economies in Latin America and found a similar result: no…”
Explaining happiness (2003, background): “Support for the hypothesis of a positive association comes from point-of-time regressions, which invariably find a significant positive association between income and happiness, with or without controls for other factors (2, 3, 22, 23, 31).”
The happiness–income paradox revisited (2010, background): “This finding of a nil relationship is contrary to economists’ usual expectation that growth and well-being would be positively related, and also to what one would expect from point-of-time cross section studies (1-8).”