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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Relative status and satisfaction
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Stefan Boes
  • Kevin E Staub
  • Rainer Winkelmann
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Socioeconomic Institute
Number No. 816
Date 2008
Abstract Text This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an income rank that is higher than that of their parents. The effect is asymmetric with regard to parents, as these seem not to be ifluenced by their children's income rank.
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