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

Using a South African data set, 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 – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the househ...

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Main Authors: Kingdon, G, Knight, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: CSAE 2004

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