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Income Inequality, Social Comparison, and Happiness in the United States

机译:收入不平等,美国社会比较和幸福

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Using social comparison theory, I investigate the relation between experienced happiness and income inequality. In the analysis, I study happiness effects of the individual-level within-gender-ethnicity comparison-based Gini index conditional on a state’s overall inequality, using a linked set of the March 2013 Current Population Survey and the 2013 American Time Use Survey data while controlling major potential confounders. The findings suggest that individuals who are positioned to conduct both upward and downward comparison would feel happier in states where overall income inequality is high. In states where inequality is not high, however, such effects are not present because social comparison becomes less meaningful when one’s position is not as clearly definable. Therefore, social comparison matters where inequality persists: One’s comparison with all similar others’ in the income distribution in a social environment determines the effect of one’s income on happiness, with the comparison target being the same gender-ethnic group.
机译:使用社会比较理论,我调查了经验丰富的幸福和收入不平等之间的关系。在分析中,我研究了以2013年3月3日当前人口调查和2013年美国时间使用调查数据的联系方式,研究了基于性别民族的个人级别比较的基于性别的Gini指数的基于总体索引的幸福效应。控制重大潜在混乱。调查结果表明,在整体收入不平等高的状态下,定位的个人在向上和向下的比较中感到更快乐。然而,在不平等不高的状态下,这种效果不存在,因为当一个人的立场没有明确可明确时,社会比较变得不太有意义。因此,社会比较不平等仍然存在:与社会环境中收入分配中的收入分配中的所有相似其他人的比较决定了一个人的收入对幸福的影响,与相同的性别民族的比较。

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