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

Alpaslan Akay () and Peter Martinsson

No 475, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

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)
JEL-codes: D10 I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2010-12-02
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Note: Published in Economics Letters, 2011, Vol. 110, pp. 213-215.
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Published as Akay, Alpaslan and Peter Martinsson, 'Does relative income matter for the very poor? - Evidence from rural Ethiopia' in Economics Letters, 2011, pages 213-215.

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