High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being

By Daniel Kahneman, Angus Deaton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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Happiness is greater in natural environments (2013, background): “As one might expect, answers across the three categories of SWB or happiness tend to be positively correlated – and also related to wellbeing according to the other two broad accounts – but they may respond differentially to different external factors, such as income (Kahneman and Deaton, 2010).”
Linkages between ecosystem services and human wellbeing: A Nexus Webs approach (2018, result): “201 By contrast, studies have demonstrated mixed results for the influence of income on 202 wellbeing (Kahneman & Deaton, 2010).”
World happiness report (2012, neutral): “Kahneman & Deaton (2010).”
Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience (2014, background): “While ExWB is clearly associated with a reduced likelihood of smoking, the relationship between evaluative well-being and smoking, while still negative, is less consistent (Kahneman and Deaton, 2010).”
Clarifying the Concept of Well-Being: Psychological Need Satisfaction as the Common Core Connecting Eudaimonic and Subjective Well-Being (2019, background): “…and measure wellbeing matters a great deal for the whole field of psychology, as research has shown that different indicators of well-being react differently to various conditions and interventions (e.g., Diener, Ng, Harter, & Arora, 2010; Dolan, Kudrna, & Stone, 2017; Kahneman & Deaton, 2010).”
Uber happy? Work and well-being in the ‘Gig Economy’ (2019, background): “, happiness and anxiety) in columns 6 and 7 is also consistent with the argument that income mainly affects evaluative, rather than emotional, well-being (Kahneman and Deaton, 2010).”
The state of wellbeing science: Concepts, measures, interventions, and policies (2014, background): “Individual or household income is positively related to life satisfaction within and between countries and at any point in time (e.g., Blanchflower & Oswald, 2004; Easterlin, 2001; Frey & Stutzer, 2000; Helliwell, 2003; Kahneman & Deaton, 2010).”
Can the Science of Well-Being Be Objective? (2016, background): “Like Longino, Hugh Lacey ([2005]) too emphasizes pluralism of research strategies as a way of counterbalancing the value-ladenness of background assumptions.”
The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2019, positive): “…annual gross household income in categories.24 The responses to this question would allow us to rank households in nine income bins.25 To produce a smoother measure of income rank, we follow the standard procedure in the literature (e.g., Stevenson and Wolfers, 2008; Kahneman and Deaton, 2010).”
Commute happiness in Xi’an, China: Effects of commute mode, duration, and frequency (2018, background): “The emotional and cognitive aspects are respectively about how we “feel” and “think” our lives in general or specific life domains such as work, family, finance, leisure, commute, etc. (Diener, 1984; Kahneman and Deaton, 2010).”