Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society.

A specially designed household survey for rural China is used to analyse the determinants of aspirations for income, proxied by reported minimum income need, and the determinants of subjective well-being, both satisfaction with life and satisfaction with income. It is found that aspiration income is...

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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autori: Knight, J, Gunatilaka, R
Format: Working paper
Jezik:English
Izdano: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2009