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Socioeconomic Inequality in Happiness in the United States

In: Economic Well-Being and Inequality: Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting

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  • Shiyi Chen
  • Buhong Zheng

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This paper applies a recently developed method of ranking socioeconomic inequality in health to ranking U.S. happiness from 1994 to 2012 using the GSS data. We also compare happiness between subgroups as decomposed by gender, race, and age. We establish and test a monotone condition of happiness – a richer person is likely to be happier. Under the monotone condition, standard tools of welfare and inequality ranking can be applied straightforwardly.

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  • Shiyi Chen & Buhong Zheng, 2014. "Socioeconomic Inequality in Happiness in the United States," Research on Economic Inequality, in: Economic Well-Being and Inequality: Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting, volume 22, pages 217-236, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reinzz:s1049-258520140000022006
    DOI: 10.1108/S1049-258520140000022006
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    Keywords

    Socioeconomic status; happiness inequality; health inequality; social gradients in health outcomes; income-happiness matrix; Lorenz dominance; D63;
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    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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