Societal Inequality and individual subjective well-being: Results from 68 societies and over 200,000 individuals, 1981–2008
Abstract
Income inequality has been contentious for millennia, a source of political conflict for centuries, and is now widely feared as a pernicious "side effect" of economic progress. But equality is only a means to an end and so must be evaluated by its consequences. The fundamental question is: What effect does a country's level of income inequality have on its citizens' quality of life, their subjective well-being? We show that in developing nations...
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Title
Societal Inequality and individual subjective well-being: Results from 68 societies and over 200,000 individuals, 1981–2008
Published Date
Feb 1, 2017
Journal
Volume
62
Pages
1 - 23
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