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Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society

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Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi
Knight, John

Abstract

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 find that comparator income, when measured as the average income of others in the local residential cluster, enters the house... mehr

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 find that comparator income, when measured as the average income of others in the local residential cluster, enters the household's utility function positively (close neighbors are 'positives', not 'negatives'), but that the income of more distant others enters negatively. Race-based comparator groups are also important in racially divided South Africa. Relative income is more important to happiness at higher levels of absolute income. Potential explanations and implications of these results are considered.... weniger

Klassifikation
Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie

Freie Schlagwörter
Subjective well-being; Happiness; Comparator groups; Altruism; Envy; Relative deprivation; Standard-setting; Race; South Africa

Sprache Dokument
Englisch

Publikationsjahr
2007

Seitenangabe
S. 69-90

Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 64 (2007) 1

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2007.03.004

Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)


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