The positive relationship between income and subjective well‐being has been well
documented. However, work assessing the relationship of alternative material well‐being …

The relationship between income and subjective well-being (SWB) is investigated using
eight waves of the British Household Panel Survey and an estimation strategy that allows us …

Numerous studies examining the impact of income on subjective well-being (SWB) have
found significant positive relationships exhibiting decreasing marginal returns. However, the …

Systematic, large discrepancies exist between direct measures of well-being and the
measures that economists largely concentrate on, notably income. The paper assesses and …

Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective
measures of well‐being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive …

Recent research has suggested that income, while playing a part in quality of life, may have
only a limited impact on a multi-faceted concept such as social wellbeing. Using data from …

The accepted view among psychologists and, increasingly, economists is that household
income has statistically significant but only small effects on measures of subjective well …

Extensive progress has been made in collecting, analysing and improving subjective
wellbeing data since the Stiglitz, Sen, Fitoussi Report was published in 2009. Many National …

Findings are presented indicating that measures of subjective well-being can be ordered
along a dimension varying from evaluative judgments of life at one end to experienced affect …

Until very recent times, the single statistic that best predicted the health and well-being of
populations was wealth. Even as late as 1972 the economist Wilson remarked that the …