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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Hedonic Adaptation to Living Standards and the Hidden Cost of Parental Income
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. 713
Date 2007
Abstract Text High parental income, while undeniably causing beneÞts for a child in terms of better access to education and more favorable labor market outcomes, may at the same time increase a childÕs income aspirations and thereby reduce Þnancial satisfaction, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between Þnancial satisfaction and parental income with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The results indicate that there is indeed a negative well-being externality of parental income, and that children appear to compare their actual income situation with the aspiration level acquired while growing up.
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