cam a22 2 4500 357888391 CHVBK 20200107115709.0 cr ||||||||||| 160307s2016 xxu||||||---- 00 |eng-d (OCoLC)944080437 (IDSSG)000855655 SzZuIDS HSG ger rda Goff Leonard Verfasser aut The Welfare Costs of Well-being Inequality Leonard Goff, John F. Helliwell, Guy Mayraz Cambridge, MA National Bureau of Economic Research 2016 1 Online-Ressource Text txt rdacontent/ger Computermedien c rdamedia/ger Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier/ger NBER working paper series 21900 21900 (IDSSG)000043070 523018967 If welfare is measured using satisfaction with life (SWL), its variance is a natural measure of inequality that incorporates all the determinants of well-being with the same weights that determine welfare itself. In this paper we explore this possibility empirically in three different ways. First we show that inequality of subjective well-being has a negative effect on life satisfaction considerably greater than does income inequality. Second, we show that this comparative result is stronger for those who report themselves as valuing equality. Finally we show that social trust, which has been shown to support subjective well-being both directly and indirectly, is more fully explained by well-being inequality than by income inequality. Helliwell John F. Verfasser aut Mayraz Guy Verfasser aut http://www.nber.org/papers/w21900 Full text for the University of St. Gallen Metadata Rights Reserved ids I noalma ids I IDSSG 100 1- Goff Leonard Verfasser aut IDSSG 490 0- NBER working paper series 21900 21900 (IDSSG)000043070 523018967 IDSSG 700 1- Helliwell John F. Verfasser aut IDSSG 700 1- Mayraz Guy Verfasser aut IDSSG 856 -- http://www.nber.org/papers/w21900 Full text for the University of St. Gallen Metadata rights reserved idssg BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 IDSSG HSG HSG ONL HONL000855655