Don't look up! individual income comparisons and subjective well-being of students in Thailand

T Dufhues, J Möllers, A Jantsch… - Journal of Happiness …, 2023 - Springer
Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that an individual's position in an income
stratum—more than the absolute income level—determines subjective well-being. However …

What Makes People Happy with their Lives in Developing Countries? Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Data on Ghana

R Atta-Ankomah, K Adjei-Mantey… - Applied Research in …, 2024 - Springer
A key objective of development thought is to improve the welfare of people and enhance
their satisfaction with life. This is important following literature that suggests that increasing …

Individual heterogeneity and perceptions matter: an analysis of income inequality and subjective well-being

T Dufhues, G Buchenrieder, J Möllers, A Jantsch - 2023 - researchsquare.com
This paper discusses the ambiguous relationship between income inequality and subjective
well-being. It starts from the hypothesis that measures of perceived income inequality and …

Wealth inequality, income inequality, and subjective well-being: A cross-country study

K Sałach-Dróżdż - International Journal of Management and Economics - sciendo.com
There are conflicting theories about whether individuals like or dislike inequality, or in other
words, whether living in an unequal country increases or decreases their subjective well …