Income distribution and well-being: what can we learn from subjective data?

By Claudia Senik. 2005

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Can the Large Swings in Russian Life Satisfaction be Explained by Ups and Downs in Real Incomes (2006, unknown): “Over the last decade there has been a considerable growth in the interest of economists in the factors that determine life satisfaction or happiness (for reviews see Frey and Stutzer, 2002; Frijters et al., 2004a; Oswald, 1997; Senik, 2005).”
Did Inequality Cause the U.S. Financial Crisis (2014, unknown): “This is also consistent with the conclusion of an extensive survey by Senik (2005) that perceived (rather than actual) mobility explains the link between other people’s income and individual satisfaction, as it determines individual opportunities and risks and, therefore, consumption and saving…”
Income Inequality and its Consequences for Life Satisfaction: What Role do Social Cognitions Play? (2012, background): “Such perceptions are arguably essential to discussions of income inequality and subjective well-being (see Senik 2005 ).”
The state of wellbeing science: Concepts, measures, interventions, and policies (2014, background): “, 2004), and it has been suggested that the relationship between income inequality and subjective wellbeing depends partly on real or perceived social mobility (e.g., Alesina et al., 2004; Senik, 2005).”
ETHNIC DIVERSITY, PUBLIC SPENDING, AND INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT FOR THE WELFARE STATE: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE (2013, unknown): “This cross-validation has increased people’s confidence that something meaningful is estimated when using ‘subjective variables,’ at least for the literature studying life satisfaction (see the survey by Senik, 2005).”
Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis (2007, unknown): “Later on the focus expanded to the effects of reference groups (Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2005), Luttmer (2005)), inflation (Boes, Lipp and Winkelmann(2005), and to policy oriented issues such as health economics (Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Van Praag (2002)), environmental issues like airport noise(Van Praag ”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, background): “3 (Layard, Mayraz and Nickell, 2010; Senik 2005).”
Income and Happiness Across Europe: Do Reference Values Matter? (2009, background): “In this case, there is some evidence not only that comparison effects disappear, but also that reference income exerts a positive and significant effect on happiness, suggesting the presence of a “tunnel effect” (see Senic, 2004).”
Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox (2008, background): “On heart rate and blood pressure measures of responses to stress, see Shedler et al. (1993). Di Tella et al (2003) show that micro-happiness regressions (where well-being answers are regressed on personal characteristics of respondents) have a similar structure across a number of nations.”
Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel (2010, unknown): “He then observes that similar decreases in 3 See Frey and Stutzer (2002) and Senik (2005) for reviews and Hamermesh (2001) for an example of a related approach focused on job satisfaction that can also be considered a measure of well-being, albeit on a particular domain.”