Income inequality and happiness in 119 nations. In search for an optimum that does not appear to exist

By M. Berg, R. Veenhoven. 2010

110 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. S. Oishi
2. Jesper J. Rözer
3. Gerbert Kraaykamp
4. E. Diener

In Social Psychology

1. E. Diener
2. S. Oishi
3. J. Delhey
4. Selin Kesebir
5. G. Dragolov
6. Jesper J. Rözer
7. Gerbert Kraaykamp
8. Simone M Schneider

In Sociology and Political Science

1. E. Diener
2. S. Oishi
3. Jesper J. Rözer
4. Gerbert Kraaykamp
5. J. Delhey
6. G. Dragolov
7. Simone M Schneider
8. Kennon M. Sheldon

Citations in the corpus

• Income Inequality and Happiness (2011, background): “The small amount of existing research on this relationship has exclusively focused on cross-national (Berg & Veenhoven, 2010; Diener, Diener, & Diener, 1995; Helliwell & Huang, 2008), cross-state (Alesina, DiTella, & MacCulloch, 2004), or cross-city comparisons (Hagerty, 2000).”
• Income Inequality and Subjective Well-being: A Cross-National Study on the Conditional Effects of Individual and National Characteristics (2013, methodology): “Our results are in line with the previous world wide studies of Berg and Veenhoven (2010) and Haller and Hadler (2006).5 It, however, contradicts the findings of Bjørnskov et al. (2008) who found no significant effect, and of Verme (2011) who presented a negative realtionship between income…”
• Why Inequality Makes Europeans Less Happy: The Role of Distrust, Status Anxiety, and Perceived Conflict (2014, background): “Empirically, broad international comparisons typically do not find this negative effect (Berg and Veenhoven, 2010), but there are notable world-regional differences, suggesting that Europeans are inequalityaverse.”