Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
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- Dolan, Paul & Lordan, Grace, 2020. "Climbing up ladders and sliding down snakes: an empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 104059, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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Keywords
income mobility; relative income; social class mobility; loss aversion; intergenerational mobility; life satisfaction; SWB; subjective wellbeing; mental health;JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2019-08-19 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HAP-2019-08-19 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HEA-2019-08-19 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2019-08-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2019-08-19 (Utility Models & Prospect Theory)
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