The effect of income on general life satisfaction and dissatisfaction

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-128

  Boes, Stefan ^a   Winkelmann, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fixed effects; Generalized ordered probit model; Life satisfaction; Marginal probability effects; Random effects

Indexed keywords

INCOME; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

GERMANY;

EID: 73449116385     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9452-7     Document Type: Article

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