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Citation Classics from Social Indicators ResearchDoes Money Buy Satisfaction?

Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research: Does Money Buy Satisfaction? [There was no change in the distribution of satisfaction with the standard of living among Detroit area wives between 1955 and 1971, although current-dollar median family income more than doubled and constant-dollar income increased by forty per cent. Cross-sectional variation in satisfaction is, however, related to income and, in particular, to relative position in the income distribution. Whereas regressions of satisfaction on income in current or constant dollars, or the logarithm thereof, suggest that at the same income there was less satisfaction in 1971 than in 1955, there is no significant year effect in the equation using the income-position variable. Easterlin’s thesis that rising levels of income do not produce rises in the average subjective estimate of welfare is supported. The thesis raises difficult questions for students of subjective social indicators.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Citation Classics from Social Indicators ResearchDoes Money Buy Satisfaction?

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 26)
Editors: Michalos, Alex C.
Duncan, Otis Dudley
Citation Classics from Social Indicators Research — Sep 10, 1975
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2005
ISBN
978-1-4020-3722-1
Pages
137 –144
DOI
10.1007/1-4020-3742-2_6
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Abstract

[There was no change in the distribution of satisfaction with the standard of living among Detroit area wives between 1955 and 1971, although current-dollar median family income more than doubled and constant-dollar income increased by forty per cent. Cross-sectional variation in satisfaction is, however, related to income and, in particular, to relative position in the income distribution. Whereas regressions of satisfaction on income in current or constant dollars, or the logarithm thereof, suggest that at the same income there was less satisfaction in 1971 than in 1955, there is no significant year effect in the equation using the income-position variable. Easterlin’s thesis that rising levels of income do not produce rises in the average subjective estimate of welfare is supported. The thesis raises difficult questions for students of subjective social indicators.]

Published: Sep 10, 1975

Keywords: Income Distribution; Consumer Price Index; Satisfaction Score; Russell Sage Foundation; Social Indicator Research

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