Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Alpaslan Akay () and Peter Martinsson

No 3812, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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

Keywords: subjective well-being; relative income; absolute income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2008-11
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110(3), 213-215

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