Clark Andrew E, D'Ambrosio Conchita, Ghislandi Simone
Paris School of Economics and CNRS.
Université du Luxembourg.
Rev Econ Stat. 2016 Jul;98(3):591-600. doi: 10.1162/REST_a_00544. Epub 2016 Jul 13.
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 that explains the overall lack of poverty adaptation.
我们研究了贫困与主观幸福感之间的联系,并特别关注对贫困的潜在适应情况。我们使用了1985年至2012年期间居住在德国的近54000个人的面板数据,首先表明,生活满意度会随着同期贫困的发生率和强度而下降。然后我们发现,在贫困期间几乎没有适应的迹象:就主观幸福感而言,贫困开始时很糟糕,而且一直很糟糕。我们无法找出任何导致陷入贫困的原因来解释整体上缺乏对贫困的适应情况。