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DETERMINANTS OF HAPPINESS Determinants of contentment Evidence for comparison theory
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Evidence for comparison theory, proof, confirmation
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Authors Title / Source Year Salmela-Aro, K.; Nurmi, J.E. Depressive Symptoms and Personal Project Appraisals: A Cross-Lagged Longitudinal Study.
Personality and Individual Differences, 1996, Vol. 21, 373 - 381 1996 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 Delhey, J.; Kohler, U. From Nationally bounded to Pan-European Inequalities? On the Importance of Foreign Countries as Reference Groups.
European Sociological Review, 2006, Vol. 22, 125 - 140 2006 Evans, S.; Huxley, P.J. Adaptation, Response-shift and Quality of Life Ratings in Mentally Well and Unwell Groups.
Quality of Life Research, 2005, Vol. 14, 1719 - 1732 2005 Clark, A.E.; Frijters, P.; Shields, M.A. Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles.
Journal of Economic Literature, 2008, Vol. 46, 95 - 144 (also Discussion Paper no. 2840, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2007, Bonn, Germany) 2008 Lyubomirsky, S.; Kasri, F.; Tucker, K.L. Responses to Hedonically Social Comparisons: Comparing Happy and Unhappy People.
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2002, Vol. 31, 511 - 535 2002 Pinhey, T.K.; Colfax, R.S.; Rubinstein, D.H. Overweight and Happiness: The Reflected Self-Appraisal Hypothesis Reconstructed.
Social Science Quarterly, 1997, Vol. 78, 747 - 755. 1997 Caporale, G.M.; Georgellis, Y.; Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, Y.P. Income and Happiness across Europe: Do Reference Values matter?
CESifo working Paper no. 2146, 2007, Munich, Germany. 2007 Firebaugh, G.; Schroeder, M.B. Does Your Neighbor's Income Affect Your Happiness?
American Journal of Sociology, 2009, Vol. 115, 805 - 831 2009 van Oudenhoven-vander Zee, K.I.; Buunk, B.P.; DeRuiter, J.H. Social Comparison and the Subjective Well-Being of Cancer Patients.
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 1996, Vol.18, 453 - 468 1996 Mayraz, G.; Schupp, J.; Wagner, G.G. Life Satisfaction and Relative Income-Perceptions and Evidence.
SOEP Paper no. 214, 2009, Berlin, Germany 2009 Georgellis, Y.; Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, P. Personal Values as Mitigating Factors in the Link Between Income and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the European Social Survey.
Social Indicators Research, Vol. 91, 2009, 329 - 344 2009 Layard, R.; Mayraz, G.; Nickell, S.J. Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?
Working paper SOEP No. 210, DIW, 2009, Berlin, Germany. (also published in: Diener E.;Helliwell J.E.; Kahneman D.;Eds.: ''International Differences in Well-Being'', Oxford University Press, 2010, 139 - 165) 2009 Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A. Income and Well-Being: An empirical Analysis of the Comparison Income Effect.
Journal of Public Economics, 2005, Vol. 89, 997 - 1019 2005 Angeles, L. Adaptation or Social Comparison? The Effects of Income and Happiness.
Paper University of Glasgow, Department of Economics, 2008, UK 2008 Byrne-Davis, L.M.; Bennett, D.S.; Wilcock, G.K. How are Quality of Life Ratings Made? Toward a Model of Quality of Life in People with Dementia.
Quality of Life Research, 2006, Vol. 15, 855 - 865 2006 Becchetti, L.; Castriota, S.; Giachin Ricca, E. Beyond the Joneses: Intercountry Income Comparisons and Happiness.
Quaderno, 2010, Vol. 82, Dept. of Economics, Finances and Statistics, Perugia, Italy 2010 Senik, C. Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their welfare Effects.
Journal of Economic Behavioral and Organization, 2009, Vol. 72, 408 - 424 2008 Carrieri, V. Social Comparison and Subjective Well-being: Does the Health of Others Matter?
Working Paper no. 14-2010, University of Calabria, Department of Economics, 2010, Italy 2010 McBride, M. Relative-income Effects on subjective Well-being in the Cross-section.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2001, Vol 45, 251 - 278 2001 Cummins, R.A. Comparison Theory in Economic Psychology regarding the Easterlin Paradox and decreasing Marginal Utility: a Critique.
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2011,Vol. 6, 241 - 252 2011 Fitzroy, F.; Nolan, M.; Steinhardt, M. F. Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income: Insights from the UK and Germany.
IZA Discussion Paper no. 6045, 2011, Bonn, Germany 2011 Knies, G. Income Comparisons among Neighbours and Satisfaction in East and West Germany.
Social Indicators Research, 2012, Vol. 106, 471 - 489 2012 Barrington-Leigh, C.; Helliwell, J.F. Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups.
NBER Working Paper No.14593, 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA 2008 Welsch, H.; Kühling, J. Income Comparison, Income Formation, and Subjective Well-Being: New Evidence on Envy versus Signaling.
Oldenburg Discussion Papers in Economics, No V-356-13, 2013, Oldenburg, Germany 2013 Pannenberg, M.; Goerke, L. Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being.
EconStor ZBW Conference Paper, No. F03-V2, 2013, Berlin, Germany 2013 Cuesta, M.B.; Budria, S. Deprivation and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from Panel Data.
EA Working Papers, 2011, No.8, UA Madrid, Spain 2011 DelaCroix, D. Growth and the Relativity of Satisfaction.
Mathematical Social Sciences. 1998, Vol. 36, 105 - 125 1998 Fitzroy, F.; Nolan, M.; Steinhardt, M. F. So Far so Good: Age, Happiness, and Relative Income.
SOEP Papers 415, 2011, Berlin, Germany 2011 Frieswijk, N.; Slaets, J.P.J.; Steverink, N. The Effect of Social Comparison Information on the Life Satisfaction of Frail Older Persons.
Psychology and Aging, 2004, Vol. 19, 183 - 190 2004 Paul, S.; Guilbert, D. Income-Happiness Paradox in Australia: Testing the Theories of Adaptation and Social Comparison.
Economic Modeling, 2013, Vol. 30, 900 - 910 2013 Wadsworth, T. Sex and the Pursuit of Happiness: How Other People’s Sex Lives are Related to our Sense of Well-Being.
Social Indicators Research, 2014, Vol. 116, 115 - 135 2014 Jorgensen, B.S.; Jamieson, R.D.; Martin, J.K. Income, Sense of Community and Subjective Well-Being: Combining Economic and Psychological Variables.
Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, Vol. 31, 612 - 623 2010 Ateca-Amestoy, V.; Aguilar, A.,C.; Moro-Egido, A.,C. Social Integrations and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Latin America.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, Vol. 15, 527 - 554 2014 Akay, A.; Bargain, O.; Zimmermann, K.F. Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants.
Journal of Human Resources, 2017, Vol. 52, 351 - 373 2017 Dumludag, D Satisfaction and Comparison Income in Transition and Developed Economies.
International Review of Economics, 2014, Vol. 61, 127 - 152 2014 Blauw, S. L. Well-to-do or Doing Well? Empirical Studies of Wellbeing and Development.
Thesis, The Tinberg Instute Research Series, "Well-to-Do or Doing Well? Empirical studies of Wellbeing and Development", 2014, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Chapter 3 2014 Hodkinson, B.; Visser, M. Effects of Objective and Subjective Income Comparisons on Subjective Wellbeing.
South Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, Working Paper Series, 2013, No, 118, Cape Town, South Africa 2013 Wolbring, T.; Keuschnigg, M.; Negele, E. Needs, Comparisons, and Adaptation: The Importance of Relative Income for Life Satisfaction.
European Sociological Review, 2013, Vol. 29, 86 - 104 2013 Guven, C.; Sorensen, B. Subjective Well-Being: Keeping Up with the Perception of the Joneses.
Social Indicators Research, 2012, Vol. 109, 439 - 469 2012 Vendrik, M. Adaptation, Anticipation and Social Interaction in Happiness: An Integrated Error-correction Approach.
Journal of Public Economics, 2013, Vol. 105, 131 - 149 2013 Brodeur, A.; Fleche, S. Where the Streets have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US.
IZA DP, 2013, No. 7256, Paris, France 2013 Cheng, S.T.; Chan, A.C.; Fung, H.H. Self-Perception and Psychological Well-Being: The Benefits of Foreseeing a Worse Future.
Psychology and Aging, 2009, Vol. 24, 623 - 633 2009 Drichoutis, A.; Lazaridis, P.; Nayga Jr., R.M. Do Reference Values Matter? Some Notes and Extensions on ‘‘Income and Happiness Across Europe''.
Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, Vol. 31, 479 - 486 2009 Barcena Martin, E.; Cortes-aguilar, A.; Moro-Egido, A.,C. The role of Proximity and Social Comparisons on Subjective Well-Being.
ThE Papers, 2013, No. 13/10, Granada, Spain 2013 Brown, S.; Gray, D.; Roberts, J. The Relative Income Hypothesis: A Comparison of Methods.
Serps, 2015, No. 2015006, 1 - 9, Sheffield, Uk 2015 Clark, A.E. Social comparisons, Health and Well-being.
LSE Research Online, 2013, Vol. 61, 184 - 188 2013 Schmitt, M.; Widdershoven, G. Longitudinal Effects of Fraternal Deprivation on Life Satisfaction and Mental Health.
PsyDok Open-Access-Server der Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Psychologie, 2004, Vol 96, 1- 35 2004 Becchetti, L.; Castriota, S.; Giachin Ricca, E. Beyond the Joneses: Inter-country Income Comparisons and Happiness.
EcoIne Working Paper Series, 2013, No. 189, 1 - 18 2013 Brown, S.; Gray, D. Household Finances and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects.
SERPS, 2014, No. 2014015, 1 - 39, Sheffield, UK. 2014 Collewet, M.; DeGrip, A.; DeKoning, J. Conspicuous Work: Peer Working Time, Labour Supply and Happiness for Male Workers.
IZA DP, 2015, No. 9011, 1 - 43, Bonn, Germany 2015 Peck, M.; Merighi, J.R. The Relation of Social Comparison to Subjective Well-Being and Health Status in Older Adults.
Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2003, Vol. 16, 121 - 142 2003 Zeidan, J. Are Comparisons Luxuries? Subjective Poverty and Positional Concerns in Indonesia.
AMSE Working Papers, 2015, No. 5, 1 - 27, Marseille, France 2015 Fontaine Carrion, X.; Katsunori, Y Caste Comparisons: Evidence from India.
Discussion Paper, 2013, No. 867, Osaka, Japan 2013 Dumludag, D; Gökdemir, O.; Yakut, S.G. Income Comparison, Collectivism and Life Satisfaction in Turkey
Quality & Quantity International Journal of Methodology, 2015 2015 Deaton, A.; Stone, A.A. Two Happiness Puzzles.
American Economical Review, 2013, Vol. 103, 591 - 597 2013 Kingdon, G.G.; Knight, J.B. Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society.
HAL - Archives Ouvertes, 2007, No. 00531870, 1 - 35 2007 Clark, A.E. Adaptation and the Easterlin Paradox.
HAL Archives Ouvertes, 2015, No. 01112725, 1 - 30 2015 Fontaine Carrion, X. Personal Communication on: Caste Comparisons: Evidence from India
Discussion Paper No. 867 presented at The Institute of Social and Economic Research Osaka University, 2013, Osaka, Japan 2013 Akay, A.; Bargain, O.; Robalino, J. Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China.
IZA Discussion Paper, 2015, No. 9163, 1 - 41 2015 Zhang, j.; Lester, D.; Zhao, J. Life Satisfaction and Its Correlates among College Students in China: A Test of Social Reference Theory.
Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2014 , Vol. 10,17 - 20 2014 Dumludag, D; Gökdemir, O.; Vendrik, M. Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture.
IZA Discussion Paper, 2015, No. 9282, 1 - 41 2015 Grimes, A.; Reinhardt, M. Relative Income and Subjective Wellbeing: Intra-national and Inter-national Comparisons by Settlement and Country Type
Motu Working Paper, 2015, No.15-10, 1 - 37 2015 Goerke, L.; Pannenberg, M. Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being across Reference Groups.
IZA Discussion Paper, 2015, No. 9395, 1 - 15 2015 Senik, C. Ambition and Jealousy: Income Interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States.
IZA DP, 2008, No. 2083, 1- 41, Bonn, Germany 2008 Caner, A. Happiness, Comparison Effects, and Expectations in Turkey
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2015, Vol. 16, 1323 - 1345 2015 Clark, A.E. Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life.
SOEPpaper, 2012, No. 452, 1 - 44, Berlin, Germany 2012 D'Ambrosio, C.; Frick, J.R. Individual Wellbeing in a Dynamic Perspective.
Economica, 2012, Vol. 79, 284 - 302 2012 Fang, Z.; Niimi, Y. Do Losses Bite More than Gains? Evidence from a Panel Quantile Regression Analysis of Subjective Well-being in Japan.
MPRA Paper, 2015, No. 68059, 2 - 40, Singapore 2015 Pfaff, T. Income Comparisons, Income Adaptation, and Life Satisfaction: How Robust Are Estimates from Survey Data?
Soep Paper, 2013, No. 555, 1 - 48 2013 Lora, E Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life. Chapter 3: The Conflictive Relationship between Income and Satisfaction.
IDB, Book, 2008, Chapter 3, 42 - 66 2008 Amendola, A.; Dell'Anno, R.; Parisi, L. Happiness, Inequality and Relative Concerns in European Countries.
Economia Politica, 2018,online, 1 - 36 2018 Bhuiyan, M.F. Perceptions Versus Reality: Life Satisfaction and Economic Position Relative to Neighbors.
Working Paper Published by the Carlton College, 2016, Northfield, USA 2016 Reyes-Garcia, V.; Babigumira, R.; Pyhala, A. Subjective Wellbeing and Income: Empirical Patterns in the Rural Developing World.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, Vol. 17, 773 - 791 2015 Latif, E. Happiness and Comparison Income: Evidence from Canada.
Social Indicator Research, 2016, Vol. 128, 161 - 177 2016 Tibesigwa, B.; Hodkinson, B.; Visser, M. Effects of Objective and Subjective Income Comparisons on Subjective Wellbeing.
Social Indicator Research 2016, Vol. 128, 361 -389 2016 Li, J. Why economic Growth did not translate into increased Happiness: preliminary Results of a Multilevel Modeling of Happiness in China.
Social Indicators Research, 2016, Vol. 128, 241 - 263 2016 Schalembier, B. The Impact of Exposure to other Countries on Life Satisfaction: an international application of the Relative Income Hypothesis.
Social Indicators Research, 2016, Vol. 128. 221- 239 2016 Pérez-Asenjo, E. If Happiness is Relative, against whom do we compare ourselves? Implications for Labour Supply.
Journal of Population Economics, 2011, Vol. 24, 1411 - 1442 2011 Nikolaev, B. Does other People's Education make us less Happy?
Economics of Education Review, 2016, Vol. 52, 176 - 191 2016 Nikolaev, B.; Juergensen McGee, J. Relative Verbal Intelligence and Happiness.
Intelligence, 2016, Vol.59, 1 - 7 2016 Antinyan, A. Reference Group Income and Subjective well-Being: Empirical Evidence from Low-Income Transition Economies.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-015-0997-3 2016 Wadsworth, T.; Pendergast, P.M. Obesity (Sometimes) Matters: The Importance of Context in the Relationship between Obesity and Life Satisfaction.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2014, Vol. 55, 196 - 214 2014 Wadsworth, T. Marriage and Subjective Well-Being: How and Why Context Matters.
Social Indicator Research, 2016, Vol. 126, 1025 - 1048 2016 Rickardsson, J; Mellander, C. Absolute vs Relative Income and Life Satisfaction
CESIS Working Paper, 2017, Nr. 451 2017 Brodeur, A.; Fleche, S. Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being.
Working Paper, 2017, Nr. 1719E, Department of Economics Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ottawa , Canada 2017 Davis, L.; Wu, S. Social Comparisons and Life Satisfaction Across Racial and Ethnic Groups: The Effects of Status, Information and Solidarity.
Social lndicators Research, 2014, Vol. 117, 849 - 869. 2014 Distante, R. Subjective Well-Being, Income and Relative Concerns in the UK
Social lndicators Research, 2013, Vol. 113, 81- 105 2013 Kraus, M.W. Beggars do not Envy Millionaires: Social Comparison, Socioeconomic Status, and Subjective Well-Being.
NobaScholar, 2018, Book chapter Handbook of Wellbeing, 1 - 11 2018 Leites, M.; Ramos, X. The Effect of Relative Concern on Life Satisfaction: Relative Deprivation and Loss Aversion.
IZA Discussion Paper Series, 2018, No. 11404, 2018 Strotmann, H.; Volkert, J. Multidimensional Poverty Index and Happiness.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018,Vol. 19, 167 - 189 2018 Melzer, S.M.; Muffels, R. Migrants' Pursuit of Happiness: An Analysis of the Effects of Adaptation, Social Comparison and Economic Integration on Subjective Well-Being on the Basis of German Panel Data for 1990-2014.
Migration Studies, 2017, 1-26 2017 Ekici, T.; Koydemir, S. Income Expectations and Happiness: Evidence from British Panel Data.
Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2016, Vol. 11, 539 - 552 2016 Wu, F. An Examination of the Effects of Consumption Expenditures on Life Satisfaction Australia.
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, Vol. 21, 2735 - 2771 2020 Bhuiyan, M.F. Life Satisfaction and Economic Position Relative to Neighbors: Perceptions Versus Reality
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018, Vol.19,1935-1964 2018 Shifa, M.; Leibbrandt, M. Relative Economic Position and Subjective Well-Being in a Poor Society: Does Relative Position Indicator Matter?
Social lndicators Research, 2018, Vol. 139, 611-630 2018 Ifcher, J. Relative Income and Happiness: An Experiment
Discussion Paper, 2018, Nr. 11763, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany 2018 Tsurumi, T; Imauji, A.; Managi, S. Relative Income, Community Attachment and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Japan
KYKLOS, 2018, Vol. 72, 152-182 2018 Slag, M.R.A; Burger, M.; Veenhoven, R. Did the Easterlin Paradox Apply in South-Korea 1980-2015? A Case Study
International Review of Economics, 2019, online 2019 Charles, A.C.; Wu, D.; Wu, Z. Economic Shocks on Subjective Well‑Being: Re‑assessing the Determinants of Life‑Satisfaction After the 2008 Financial Crisis
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019, Vol. 20, 1041 - 1055 2019 Kang, J.H.; Lee, J.S.; Song, B.K. Envy and Pride: How Economic Inequality Deepens Happiness Inequality in South Korea
Social Indicators Research, 2020, online 2020 Gerritsen, A.; Lang, H.W. Hirschman's Tunnel Effect Goes Abroad: International Dimensions of Social Comparison and Subjective Well-Being
Working Paper, 2016, 2018 -02, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Department of Business and Tax Law Department of Public Economics, Munich, Germany 2016