Happiness inequality: Adding meaning to numbers - A reply to Veenhoven and Kalmijn

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 731-734

  Delhey, Jan ^a   Kohler, Ulrich ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

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EID: 84858190447     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Delhey J., Kohler U. Is happiness inequality immune to income inequality? New evidence through instrument effect-corrected standard deviations. Social Science Research 2011, 40(3):742-756.
2. Kalmijn W. Happiness is not normally distributed: a comment to Delhey and Kohler. Social Science Research 2012, 41:109-202.
3. Milanovic, B., 2009. Preindustrial inequality. In: Durlauf, S.N., Blume, L.E., (Eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Online Edition). Palgrave Macmillan, <>, doi: doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1918.
4. Veenhoven R. The medicine is worse than the disease: comment on Delhey and Kohler's proposal to measure inequality in happiness using 'instrument-effect-corrected' standard deviations. Social Science Research 2012, 41:203-205.