Click on the links below for a fascinating conversation between experts on the relationship between income inequality and subjective well-being.

 

Research article:

Societal Inequality and individual subjective well-being: Results from 68 societies and over 200,000 individuals, 1981–2008
Jonathan Kelley, M.D.R. Evans

 

Comments:

Inequality equilibria and individual well-being
Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Lesia Nedoluzhko

Inequality and inequity
François Nielsen

Income inequality probably has had little or no effect on subjective well-being
Lane Kenworthy

 

A Reply:

The new income inequality and well-being paradigm: Inequality has no effect on happiness in rich nations and normal times, varied effects in extraordinary circumstances, increases happiness in poor nations, and interacts with individuals’ perceptions, attitudes, politics, and expectations for the future
Jonathan Kelley, M.D.R. Evans