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

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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.

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

Urheber*in: Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi; Knight, John

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Seite(n): 69-90
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 64(1)

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

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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi
Knight, John
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
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Niederlande
(wann)
2007

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-199595
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  • Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi
  • Knight, John

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  • 2007

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