TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Grimes, Arthur
AU  - Jenkins, Stephen P.
AU  - Tranquilli, Florencia
        TI  - The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
        PY  - 2020/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13692
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13692
        AB  - We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices appropriate for ordinal data, our analysis using the World Values Survey reveals that skewness of the SWL distribution, not only inequality, matters for individual SWL outcomes; so too does whether we look upwards or downwards at the (skewed) distribution. Our results are consistent with there being negative (positive) externalities for an individual's SWL from seeing people who are low (high) in the SWL distribution.
        KW  - skewness
KW  - subjective wellbeing
KW  - ordinal data
KW  - inequality
KW  - WVS
        ER  -