Empirical studies typically find a moderate positive correlation between subjective well-being (SWB) and income. In the present paper, we examined stable and transient determinants of the relation between affective well-being and income in the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS; N = 37,041) and the relation between cognitive well-being and income in the BHPS (N = 31,871) and the Socio-Economi...

Diminishing marginal well-being from income suggests that redistributing income from the rich to the poor will raise average levels of well-being within a society. This utilitarian logic suggests that— conditional on average income—countries with greater income inequality will experience lower levels of average well-being. Yet existing research has failed to find clear evidence that inequality ...

This paper investigates the link between the incomes and wealth of pensioners and their working-life earnings levels. The proportionality predicted by a simple form of the life-cycle model is supported for pensioner couples and male single pensioners, but not for female single pensioners. In all cases working-life earnings level is found to have a strong influence on pensioner poverty. Pensione...

OBJECTIVES To examine associations between child wellbeing and material living standards (average income), the scale of differentiation in social status (income inequality), and social exclusion (children in relative poverty) in rich developed societies. DESIGN Ecological, cross sectional studies. SETTING Cross national comparisons of 23 rich countries; cross state comparisons within the Un...

There is a growing policy concern about the extent of loneliness in advanced societies, and its prevalence among various social groups. This study looks at loneliness among people living in deprived communities, where there may be additional barriers to social engagement including low incomes, fear of crime, poor services and transient populations. The aim was to examine the prevalence of lonel...