Subjective Welfare, Isolation, and Relative Consumption

By Marcel Fafchamps, Forhad Shilpi. 2008

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Rural–Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? (2010, background): “It includes Graham and Pettinato ( 2002 ) and Graham ( 2005 ) on Peru and Russia; Ravallion and Lokshin ( 2001 , 2002) on Russia; Kingdon and Knight ( 2006 , 2007) on South Africa; and Fafchamps and Shilpi ( 2008 ) on Nepal.”
Migration and aspirations – are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill? (2014, background): “8This result on levels of subjective well-being differs slightly from other contexts like China (Knight & Gunatilaka 2010) or Nepal (Fafchamps & Shilpi 2008).”
A test for the convexity of human well-being over the life cycle: Longitudinal evidence from a 20-year panel (2011, background): “As discussed in work such as that of Fleurbaey et al. (2009), one must distinguish between decision utility, based on preferences, and a hedonic state. Consider two individuals, one age 20 and one age 80. Both might agree that life at 20 is better than life at 80. This does not mean, however, that t”
Weakly Relative Poverty (2009, unknown): “…and van de Geer (1985), Clark and Oswald (1996), Solnick and Hemenway (1998), Pradhan and Ravallion (2000), Ravallion and Lokshin (2002, 2010), McBride (2001), Blanchflower and Oswald (2004), Kingdon and Knight (2007), Ferrer-iCarbonell (2005), Luttmer (2005), and Fafchamps and Shilpi (2008).”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, background): “33 Fafchamps and Shilpi (2008) consider a direct measure of relative utility in a developing country by analysing the answers to a question on consumption adequacy in Nepalese data.”