Income Inequality and Happiness
Shigehiro Oishi, Selin Kesebir, Ed Diener
Psychological Science · 2011 · Volume 22 · Issue 9
Abstract
Using General Social Survey data from 1972 to 2008, we found that Americans were on average happier in the years with less national income inequality than in the years with more national income ine...
Keywords
happiness, income inequality, fairness, trust, well-being, sociocultural factors, social structure, socioeconomic status
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