Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being

By Erzo F. P. Luttmer. 2005

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. Andrew E. Clark
2. Claudia Senik
3. Nattavudh Powdthavee
4. Bruno S. Frey
5. John Knight
6. Richard A. Easterlin
7. Andrew J. Oswald
8. P. Frijters

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Andrew E. Clark
2. John Knight
3. Claudia Senik
4. Simone M Schneider
5. R. Gunatilaka
6. Nattavudh Powdthavee
7. Simon Luechinger
8. P. Frijters

Citations in the corpus

• Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Leisure* (2009, positive): “For example, Luttmer (2005) has tested Veblen’s thesis by”
• Why Income Inequality Is Dissatisfying—Perceptions of Social Status and the Inequality-Satisfaction Link in Europe (2019, background): “, 2012; Wolbring, Keuschnigg and Negele, 2013), neighbours (Luttmer, 2005; Shields, Wheatley Price and Wooden, 2009; Dittmann and Goebel, 2010; Knies, 2012), others living in the same region/state (Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004; Diener et al.”
• Work, Jobs and Well-Being Across the Millennium (2009, background): “A lively literature across the social sciences has found evidence in favour of such comparisons with respect to income (Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004, Clark and Oswald, 1996, and Luttmer, 2005, to name just three).”
• Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “Luttmer (2005) also takes a geographic approach to reference groups, and calculates average income by local area identified in a number of waves of the US National Survey of Families and Households; this is shown to be negatively correlated with respondents’ life satisfaction, conditional on their…”
• Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China (2012, background): “…revisited in the recent literature on self-reported subjective well-being (e.g., Clark and Oswald, 1996; McBride, 2001; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2005; Luttmer, 2005; Senik, 2004, 2008; Pérez-Asenjo, 2010; see also the survey of Clark et al., 2008) or tailor-made survey experiments (e.g., Solnick and…”
• Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being? (2017, background): “19 Concern for relative income has been regarded as the most plausible explanation for the paradox (Luttmer 2005; Clark, Frijters, and Shields 2008; Chen 2015b).20 We are among the first to simultaneously evaluate the economic significance of air pollution, relative income, and other correlates in…”
• Income inequality and happiness in 119 nations. In search for an optimum that does not appear to exist (2010, background): “Income inequality, then, is unpleasant for those who earn less than others (Luttmer, 2004), although even low income individuals might be able to compare themselves with worse off comparison groups.”