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Bibliographic Subjects » CORRELATES OF HAPPINESS » Situational correlates of happiness » Societal context: » National setting » Nation characteristics » Inequality in the nation » inequality of opportunities in nation » Inequality of incomes in nation

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CORRELATES OF HAPPINESS Situational correlates of happiness Societal context: National setting Nation characteristics Inequality in the nation inequality of opportunities in nation Inequality of incomes in nation
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Inequality of incomes in nation, disparity, disproportion, dispersion, inequality
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List of Publications on this Subject

Authors Title / Source Year Hewitt, H.B. Happiness and the Material Standard of Living.
The Hibbert Journal, Vol. 50, 1951/52, 218 - 224 1951 MacKaye, J. The Economy of Happiness.
Little & Brow, 1906, Boston, USA 1906 Morawetz, D. Income Distributions and Self-Rated Happiness: Some Empirical Evidence.
The Economic Journal, 1977, Vol. 87, 511 - 522 1977 Hagerty, M.R. Social Comparison of Incomes in One's Community: Evidence from National Surveys of Income and Happiness.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2000, Vol. 78, 764 - 771 2000 Alesina, A.; DiTella, R.; MacCulloch, R.J. Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?
Journal of Public Economics, 2004, Vol. 88, 2009 - 2042 2004 Blanchflower, D.G.; Oswald, A.J. Does Inequality Reduce Happiness? Evidence from the States of the USA from 1970s to the 1990s.
Paper presented in Milan, 2003, Italy 2003 Tomes, N. Income Distributions, Happiness and Satisfaction: A Direct Test of the Interdependent Preferences Model.
Journal of Economic Psychology, 1986, Vol. 7, 425 - 446 1986 Senik, C. When Information Dominates Comparison. Learning from Russian Subjective Panel Data.
Journal of Public Economics, 2004, Vol. 88, 2099 - 2123 2004 Schwarze, J.; Härpfer, M. Income Inequality, Redistribution and Well-Being.
Grözinger, G.; VanAaken, A..;Eds.: "Inequality: New Analytical Approaches", Metropolis Verlag, 2004, Marburg, Germany, 61 - 86 2004 Ebert, U.; Welsch, H. The Social Evaluation of Income Distribution: An Assessment Based on Happiness Surveys.
Working Paper no. 381, 2004, Syracuse University, Syracuse New York USA 2004 Graham, C.; Felton, A. Does Inequality Matter to Individual Welfare? An Initial Exploration Based on Happiness Surveys from Latin America.
CSED Working Paper No. 38, The Brookings Institution, January 2005, Washington DC, USA 2005 Kohler, U.; Alber, J. Is it Money that Matters?
Paper Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 2005, Germany 2005 Clark, A.E. Inequality-Aversion and Income Mobility: A Direct Test.
Paper CNRS and DELTA-Fédération, 2003, Paris, France 2003 Berg, M.C. Inkomensongelijkheid en geluk in landen. (Income differences and Happiness in Countries)
Mens en Maatschappij, 2007, Vol.82, 28-50 2007 Dolan, P.; Peasgood, T.; White, M.P. Review of Research on the Influences on Personal Well-Being and Application to Policy Making.
Report for Defra, 2006, UK 2006 Bjornskov, C. Ideological Interpretation of Easterlin's Income-Happiness Paradox: A Warning.
Paper Aarhus School of Business, May 2006, Denmark 2006 Truglia, R.P. Can a Raise in Income Inequality Improve Welfare?
MPRA Paper no. 3368, 2007, München, Germany. (Master Thesis, 2007, University of San Andrés, Victoria, Argentina) 2007 Alber, J.; Lenarz, P. Wachsende soziale Ungleichheit in Europa. (Growing Social Inequality in Europe).
ISI Bulletin, 2008, Vol. 39, 1 - 5 2008 Bjornskov, C. The Relation between Inequality and Happiness. Do Subjective Perceptions Matter?
Paper, Aarhus School of Business, 2007, Denmark 2007 Bolle, F.; Okhrin, Y.; Vogel, C. A Note on Interdependent Happiness.
The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2009, Vol. 38, 713 - 721 2009 Dean, J.W. National Welfare and Individual Happiness: Income Distribution and Beyond.
Journal of Policy Modeling, 2007, Vol. 29, 567 - 575 2007 Offer, A. The Challenge of Affluence. Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950.
Oxford University Press, 2006, New York, USA 2006 Faik, J.; Becker, J. Wohlstandspolarisierung, Verteilungskonflikte und Ungleichheitswahrnehmungen in Deutschland. ( Inequality in Germany.)
FAMA Diskussion Paper 5/2009, Neue Frankfurter Sozialforschung, 2009, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2009 Berg, M.C. Geluk in Landen: Een Empirische Studie naar Condities voor een Gelukkige Samenleving. ( Happiness in Nations. An Empirical Study of Conditions for a Happy Society).
Doctoral Thesis Department of Social Science, Erasmus University, 2010, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2010 Ebert, U.; Welsch, H. How do Europeans Evaluate Income Distributions? An Assessment based on Happiness Surveys.
Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, Vol. 55, 803 - 819 2009 Berg, M.C.; Veenhoven, R. Income Inequality and Happiness in 119 Nations: In Search for an Optimum that Does not Appear to Exist.
Greve, B.; Ed.: "Happiness an d Social Policy in Europe", Edward Elgar Publishing LTD, 2010, Cheltenham, UK , 145 - 173 2010 Bjornskov, C.; Dreher, A.; Fischer, J.A.; Schnellenbach, J. Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, Vol. 91, 75 - 92 2013 Verme, P. Life Satisfaction and Income Inequality.
Working Paper: WP 2010-178, ECINEQ, 2010, Palma, Mallorca, Spain 2010 O'Connell, M. Fairly Satisfied: Economic Equality, Wealth and Satisfaction.
Journal of Economic Psychology, 2004, Vol. 25, 297 - 305 2004 VanderDeijl, W. Macroeconomics and Happiness: Income Inequality as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox.
Paper, Roosevelt Academy, 2011, Middelburg, Netherlands 2011 Ram, R. Social Capital and Happiness: Additional Cross-Country Evidence.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2010, Vol. 11, 409 - 418 2010 Senik, C. Income Distribution and subjective Happiness.
OECD, Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers no. 96, 2009, Paris, France 2009 Delhey, J.; Kroll, C. A " Happiness Test" for the New Measures of the National Well-Being: How much Better than GDP are They?
WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2012-201, 2012, Berlin, Germany 2012 Beja Jr., E. L. Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of Income Inequality.
MPRA Paper no. 34177, 2011, München, Germany 2011 Cullis, J.; Hudson, J.; Jones, P. A Different Rationale for Redistribution: Pursuit of Happiness in the European Union.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2011, Vol. 12, 323 - 341 2011 Bjornskov, C. A Different Rationale for Redistribution: A Comment.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2011, Vol. 12, 343 - 347 2011 Delhey, J.; Kohler, U. Is Happiness Inequality Immune to Income Inequality? New Evidence through Instrument-Effect-Corrected Standard Deviations.
Social Science Research, 2011, Vol. 40, 742 - 756 2011 Clark, A.E.; Fleche, S.; Senik, C. The Great Happiness Moderation.
SOEP Paper 468, 2012, Berlin, Germany 2012 Hanssen, M. Is Equality a Determinant of Well-Being? A Cross-National Analysis of Income Inequality and Self-Reported Life Satisfaction.
A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University, 2011, Washington, DC, USA 2011 Levin, K. A.; Torsheim, T.; Vollebergh, W.A. National Income and Income Inequality, Family Affluence and Life Satisfaction Among 13 year Old Boys and Girls: A Multilevel Study in 35 Countries.
Social Indicators Research, 2011, Vol. 104, 179 - 194. 2011 Rözer, J.; Kraaykamp, G. Income Inequality and Subjective Well-Being: A Cross-National Study on the Conditional Effects of Individual and National Characteristics.
Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 113, 1009 - 1023 2013 Macunovich, D.J. A Note on Inequality Aversion Across Countries, Using Two New Measures.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5734, 2011, Bonn, Germany 2011 Oishi, S.; Diener, E.; Kesebir, P. Income Inequality and Happiness.
Psychological Science September, 2011, Vol. 22, 1095 - 1100 2011 Easterlin, R.A. Life Satisfaction of Rich and Poor under Socialism and Capitalism.
International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2012, Vol 1, 112 - 126 2012 Delhey, J.; Dragolov, G. Why Inequality Makes Europeans Less Happy: The Role of Distrust, Status Anxiety, and Perceived Conflict.
European Sociological Review, 2013, Vol. 0, 1- 15 2013 EUROSTAT, Quality of Life Indicators. Overall Experience of Life from Statistics Explained.
Eurostat, 2013 2013 Zagorski, K.; Evans, M.D.; Kelley, J. Does National Income Inequality affect Individuals' Quality of Life in Europe? Inequality, Happiness, Finances, and Health.
Social Indicators Research, 2014, Vol. 117, 1089 - 1110 2014 Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A.; Ramos, X. Inequality and Happiness: A Survey
GINI Discussion Paper, 2012, Nr. 38, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2012 Hopkins, E. Inequality, happiness and relative concerns: What actually is their relationship?
Journal of Economic Inequality, 2008, Vol. 6, 351 - 372 2008 Clark, A.E.; D'Ambrosio, C. Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence.
IZA DP, 2014, No 8136, Bonn, Germany 2014 Hajdu, T.; Hajdu, G. Reduction of Income Inequality and Subjective Well-Being in Europe.
E-conomics, Discussion Paper, 2014, No. 22, Hungary 2014 Cojocaru, A. Fairness and Inequality Tolerance: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey.
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, Vol. 42, 590 - 608 2014 Mikucka, M.; Sarracino, F. Making Economic Growth and Well-Being Compatible: The Role of Trust and Income Inequality.
MPRA Working Paper, 2014, No. 59695, 1 - 26, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 2014 Muffels, R.; Dingemans, E.; Skugar, D. Money Does not Buy much Happiness, but what have Income Inequality, Modernization and Personal values got to do with It?
Tilburg University REFLECT Research Paper, 2012, No.1, Tilburg, The Netherlands 2012 Joshanloo, M.; Weijers, D. Religiosity Moderates the Relationship between Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction across the Globe.
Social Indicators Research Online, 2015, 1-20 2015 Barrington-Leigh, C. Economic Inequality and Subjective Well-being: is Inequality Good for the Rich?
University of British Columbia, Working Paper, 2014, 1 - 55 2010 Gandelman, N.; Porzecanski, R. Happiness Inequality: how much is Reasonable?
Social Indicators Research, 2013, Vol. 110, 257-269 2013 Burkhauser, R.V.; DeNeve, J.E.; Powdthavee, N Top Incomes and Human Well-being around the World.
IZA Discussion Paper, 2016, No. 9677, 1 - 60, Ithaca, USA 2016 Cheung, F. Can Income Inequality be Associated With Positive Outcomes? Hope mediates the Positive Inequality-Happiness Link in Rural China
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2015, Vol. 7, 320 - 330 2015 Grosfeld, I.; Senik, C. The Emerging Aversion to Inequality. Evidence from Subjective Data.
Economics of Transition, 2010, Vol. 18, 1 - 26 2010 Schröder, M. How Income Inequality Influences Life Satisfaction: Hybrid Effects Evidence from the German SOEP.
European Sociological Review, 2016, 1 - 14 2016 Oishi, S.; Kesebir, P. Income Inequality Explains Why Economic Growth Does not Always Translate to an Increase in Happiness.
Psychological Science, 2015, Published Online, 1 - 9 2015 Snowdon, Ch. Are more Equal Countries Happier?
Booth, Ph.; Eds.: " …and the Pursuit of Happiness", The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2012, London, UK, 98 - 127 2012 Hovi, M.; Laamanen, J.P. It’s Complicated: the Relationship Between GDP and Subjective Well-being.
Tampere Economic Working Papers, 2016, No. 97, 1 - 24. Finland 2016 Kelley, J.; Evans, M.D. Societal Income Inequality and Individual Subjective Well-being: Results from 68 Societies and over 200,000 Individuals, 1981 - 2008
Social Science Research, 2016, 1 - 23 2016 Choi, Y.C.; Jang, J.H. Relationships Among Social Policy Factors, National Competitiveness, and Happiness.
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2016, Vol. 11, 1189 - 1205 2016 Weimann, J.; Knabe, A.; Schöb, R. Okonomische Determinanten des Glücks (The Economic Determinants of Happiness)
Weimann J.et al (Eds); "Geld macht doch glücklich. Wo die ökonomische Glücksforschung irrt" ("Money does buy happiness. Where happiness economics is wrong"), 2012, Scheaffer-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart,, Germany. 2012 Saumik, P; Ranzani, M Happiness in Transition Countries
World Bank conference 2008 Mikucka, M.; Dubrov, D.; Dubrow, J.K.; Sarracino, F. When Does Economic Growth Improve Life Satisfaction? Multilevel Analysis of the Roles of Social Trust and Income Inequality in 46 Countries, 1981–2012
World Development Vol. 93, 447 - 459 2017 Schneider, S.M. Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, Vol. 17, 1719 - 1739 2016 Dragolov, G. Revising the Link between Inequalities and Subjective Well-being: How Does Income Inequality Make Us Un-/happy?
PhD Dissertation, 2018,, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Universität Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen, 2018, Bremen, Germany 2018 Kogan, I.; Shen, J.; Siegert, M. What Makes a Satisfied Immigrant? Host-Country Characteristics and Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Eighteen European Countries.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018, Vol. 19, 1783 - 1809 2018 Ngamaba, K.H.; Armitage, C.J.; Panagioti, M. Income Inequality and Subjective Well-being: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Quality of Life Research, 2018, Vol. 27, 577 - 596 2018 Cooper, D.; McCausland, W.D.; Theodossiou, I. Income Inequality and Wellbeing: The Plight of the Poor and the Curse of Permanent Inequality.
Journal of Economic Issues, 2013, Vol. 47, 939 - 958 2013 Hajdu, T.; Hajdu, G. Are More Equal Societies Happier? Subjective Well-Being, Income Inequality, and Redistribution.
IEHAS - Discussion Paper 2013/20, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary 2013 Graafland, J.J.; Lous, B. Economic Freedom, Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction in OECD Countries.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018, Vol. 19, 2071 - 2093 2018 Tavor, T.; Gonen, L.D.; Weber, M. The Effects of Income Levels and Income Inequalities on Happiness
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018, Vol. 19, 2115-2137 2018 Dluhosch, B. Trade, Inequality, and Subjective Well-Being: Getting at the Roots of the Backlash Against Globalization
Working Paper, 2018, Nr. 741, Cross-National Data Center, LIS, Luxemburg 2018 Schröder, M. Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Unrelated Between Countries, Associated Within Countries Over Time
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018, Vol. 19, 1021 - 1043 2018 Cheung, C.K. Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction Across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2018, Vol 115, 867 - 882 2018 Evans, M.D.; Kelley, J.; Kelley, S.M.C. Rising Income Inequality During the Great Recession Had No Impact on Subjective Wellbeing in Europe, 2003 - 2012
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019, Vol. 20, 203 - 228 2019 Ng, W.; Diener, E. Affluence and Subjective Well-Being: Does Income Inequality Moderate their Associations?
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2019, Vol. 14, 155 - 170 2019 Reyes-Garcia, V.; Angelsen, A.; Shively, G.E. Does Income Inequality Influence Subjective Wellbeing? Evidence from 21 Developing Countries
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019, Vol. 20, 1197 - 1215 2019 Schalembier, B. An Evaluation of Common Explanations for the Impact of Income Inequality on Life Satisfaction
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019, Vol20, 777-794 2019 Schneider, S.M. Why Income Inequality Is Dissatisfying Perceptions of Social Status and the Inequality-Satisfaction ink in Europe
European Sociological Review, 2019, Vol. , 1-22 2010 Dimitrova, L. Democracy, Economy and Happiness in Post-Soviet States (1995-2014)
Master Thesis, 2016, University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences 2016 Garcia-Munoz, T.; Milgram-Baleix, J.; Odeh-Odeh, O. Inequality and Life Satisfaction in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Role of Opportunity
Societies, 2019, Vol. 9, Nr. 37, 1-25 2019 Goff, L.; Helliwell, J.F.; Mayraz, G. Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality.
Economic Inquiry, 2018, Vol. 56, 2177 - 2194 2018 Graafland, J.J.; Lous, B. Income Inequality, Life Satisfaction Inequality and Trust: A Cross Country Panel Analysis
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019, Vol. 20, 1717-1737 2019 Popov, V. Billionaires, Millionaires, Inequality, and Happiness
Working Paper, MPRA, 2019, Nr. 94081 2019 Layte, R. The Association Between Income Inequality and Mental Health: Testing Status Anxiety, Social Capital, and Neo-Materialist Explanations
European Sociological Review, 2012, Vol. 28, 498-511 2012 Kelley, J.; Evans, D.R. The New Income Inequality and Well-Being Paradigm
Social Science Research, 2017, Vol. 62, 39 - 74 2017 Alois, P Income Inequality and Happiness: Is There a elationship?
Working Paper, 2014, No.614, Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2014 Lous, B. On Free Markets, Income Inequality, Happiness and Trust
CentER, 2020, Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University 2020 Bakkeli, N.Z. Older Adults’ Mental Health in China: Examining the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing Using Panel Data Analysis
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, Vol. 21, 1349 - 1383 2020 Lakshamanasamy, T.; Maya, K. The Effect of Income Inequality on Happiness Inequality in India: A Recentered Influence Function Regression Estimation and Life Satisfaction Inequality Decomposition
Indian Journal of Human Development, 2020, Vol. 14, 161 - 181 2020 Lee, S.Y.; Kim, R.; Subramanian, S.V. Associations between Subjective Wellbeing and Macroeconomic Indicators: An Assessment of Heterogeneity across 60 Countries
Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2020, 100011 2020 Bouffard, L.; Dubé, M. L’inégalité de Revenus : un « Virus » qui affecte la Santé Mentale et le Bonheur (Mental Income Inequality: a " virus" which Affects Health and Happiness)
Santé mentale au Québec, 2013, Vol.38, 215- 233 2013