Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year

Income Taxation and Well-Being

Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax effect on subjective well-being is significant and posi...

Income and Child Well-Being

My topic this afternoon is the link between family income and the well-being of children. While it is easy to document the better health and higher achievement of children who have grown up in richer as opposed to poorer families, it is much harder to isolate the causal impact of income itself. Children growing up in higher income families are advantaged in many other ways, including having par...

Environment , Well - Being , and Experienced Preference

Association of experienced and evaluative well-being with health in nine countries with different income levels: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND It is important to know whether the relationships between experienced and evaluative well-being and health are consistent across countries with different income levels. This would allow to confirm whether the evidence found in high income countries is the same as in low- and middle-income countries and to suggest policy recommendations that are generalisable across countries. We asse...

Mothers’ Income and Economic Well-Being

Critics charged that the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program trapped people in a cycle of dependency. Some emphasized that the generosity of welfare payments (relative to available employment) made long-term welfare receipt an attractive alternative to work. Others argued that even when employment increased gross income, the total economic package offered by the welfare syste...