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Andrew E. Clark
Researcher at Paris School of Economics
Publications - 358
Citations - 31578
Andrew E. Clark is an academic researcher from Paris School of Economics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Life satisfaction & Happiness. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 318 publications receiving 28819 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew E. Clark include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Satisfaction and comparison income
Andrew E. Clark,Andrew J. Oswald +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to test the hypothesis that utility depends on income relative to a "comparison" or reference level using data on 5,000 British workers and found that workers' reported satisfaction levels are inversely related to their comparison wage rates.
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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the evidence on relative income from the subjective well-being literature and discuss the relation (or not) between happiness and utility, and discuss some nonhappiness research (behavioral, experimental, neurological) related to income comparisons.
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Relative income, happiness, and utility : an explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the evidence on relative income from the subjective well-being literature and discuss the relation (or not) between happiness and utility, and discuss some nonhappiness research (behavioral, experimental, neurological) related to income comparisons.
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Job satisfaction and gender: Why are women so happy at work?
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that women's jobs are worse than men's, yet women report higher levels of job satisfaction than do men, while men's expectations are lower than women's.