Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data

Andrew Clark, D’Ambrosio, Conchita and Simone Ghislandi
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Conchita D'Ambrosio

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Abstract: We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence of adaptation within a poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. We cannot identify any cause of poverty entry which explains the overall lack of poverty adaptation.

Keywords: Income; Poverty; Subjective well-being; Adaptation; SOEP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2014-11
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Working Paper: Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data (2014)
Working Paper: Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data (2014)
Working Paper: Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data (2014)
Working Paper: Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data (2014)
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