Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay () and Peter Martinsson

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 110, issue 3, 213-215

Abstract: We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia.

Keywords: Absolute; income; Relative; income; Subjective; well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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