Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

By Geeta Kingdon, John Knight. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China (2009, background): “The exceptions include Ravallion and Lokshin (2001, 2002) on Russia, Kingdon and Knight (2006, 2007) on South Africa, and Graham and Pettinato (2002) on Peru and Russia.”
Inequality in China: An Overview (2013, neutral): “For instance, Senik (2004) found a positive coefﬁcient for Russia (on income in the region), and Kingdon and Knight (2007) found a positive coefﬁcient for South Africa (on income in the close neighborhood).”
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? (2006, background): “Ravallion and Lokshin (2001) and Graham and Pettinato (2002) are exceptions.”
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).”
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…”
Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal? (2009, positive): “The published work that has found a positive well-being effect from others’ income, Senik (2004 and 2007) and Kingdon and Knight (2007), can also be interpreted in terms of signal effects. Senik (2004) uses Russian RLMS data to establish a positive correlation between life satisfaction and (geograph”
Does the Internet Make People Happier (2011, background): “People take care of their relative income rather than their absolute income (Clark and Oswald, 1996; Easterlin, 2001; Kingdon and Knight, 2007).”
Poor, or Just Feeling Poor? On Using Subjective Data in Measuring Poverty (2012, background): “…(2001), Ravallion and Lokshin (2001, 2002, 2010), Graham and Pettinato (2002), Senik (2004), Luttmer (2005), Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2005), Herrera et al. (2006), Bishop and Luo (2006), Kingdon and Knight (2006, 2007), Fafchamps and Shilpi (2009), Knight and Gunatilaka (2010) and Castilla (2010).”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, background): “E taken from their paper illustrate the positive slope of the happiness curve in India, Mexico, Puerto Rica, South Africa, and the downward slope in China.”
Relative Income Position and Performance: An Empirical Panel Analysis (2006, neutral): “…Watson et al. 1996, Groot and van den Brink 1999, Tsou and Liu 2001, McBride 2001, Lyubomirsky 2001, Frey and Stutzer 2002a,b, Stutzer 2004, Kingdon and Knight 2004, Layard 2003, Luttmer 2005, Ferrer-i-Carbonell 2005, Dorn et al. 2005) has found strong empirical support for the importance…”
Subjective Welfare, Isolation, and Relative Consumption (2008, positive): “11 This is indeed the interpretation offered by Kingdon and Knight (2004) who show that, in South Africa, subjective wellbeing falls with average income in the district but rises with average income in the immediate neighborhood.”
Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China (2012, background): “2See Graham and Pettinato (2002) on Peru and Russia; Kingdon and Knight (2006, 2007) and Bookwalter and Dalenberg (2010) on South Africa; Akay and Martinsson (2010) on Ethiopia; and Ravallion and Lokshin (2001, 2002) on Russia; see Graham (2005) for a helpful overview.”