This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

Background The global population of older adults (aged> 60 years) is expected to triple to 2
billion by 2050. Proportionate rises in older adults affected by loneliness and social isolation …

Happiness has been topic of research since ancient times. This study explores the theory of
consumer happiness grounded in the tenets of mass prestige (Masstige), self …

Abstract The 1990 World Development Report from the World Bank defined the “extremely
poor” people of the world as those who are currently living on no more than …

This paper is among the first to link the literatures on migration and on subjective well-being
in developing countries. It poses the question: why do rural–urban migrant households …

The paper presents subjective well-being functions for urban and rural China, based on a
national household survey for 2002. Whereas the vast income disparity between urban and …

Prevailing measures of relative poverty are unchanged when all incomes grow or contract
by the same proportion. This property stems from seemingly implausible assumptions about …

Customers at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) desire to use the same products as affluent
consumers. Thus, BOP customers tend to participate in aspirational consumption. The …

Using South African data, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of
subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We …

This paper explores the impact of ambiguity preference and social learning on farmers' new
technology adoption. The results show that (1) Ambiguity preference has a significant impact …