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What explains life satisfaction? Relative income or rank income? The case of Ecuador Acosta González, Hugo Nicolás Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David Renta (Teoría económica) Renta - Aspectos sociales https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/4943 We test whether various measures of relative income and rank income hypothesis explain life satisfaction in Ecuador. We found robust evidence that the rank position of the income within the reference group explains life satisfaction. In contrast, the effect of relative income measures on happiness is sensitive to the variables used to construct the reference group. 2025-07-11T11:24:51Z 2025-07-11T11:24:51Z 2020-12-10 journal article Acosta, H. N., Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, O. D. (2022). “What explains life satisfaction? Relative income or rank income? The case of Ecuador”. Applied Economics Letters, 29(3), 195-199. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39309 10.1080/13504851.2020.1861193 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Taylor & Francis