Table 1.
Moderation effects of social capital in the relationships between own income and social comparisons with subjective well-being.
Results from cross-sectional data.
Table 2.
Moderation effects of social capital in the relationships of own income and social comparisons with subjective well-being.
Results from longitudinal data.
Table 3.
Results accounting for endogeneity using two-stage least square regressions with generated instruments.
Fig 1.
Weighted life satisfaction gap between rich and poor people across European countries.
Note: 29 European countries; data EU-SILC 2013. Social capital is measured as the share of respondents with a social capital index = 2. The social capital index has a maximum score of 2 if a person trusts others and meets friends at least once per month. Life satisfaction ranges on a 0 to 10 scale, where largest scores stand for higher life satisfaction. Country-level scores are divided by average life satisfaction to account for the mechanic relation between average and dispersion. Aggregated data are computed from individual data using sample weights.
Fig 2.
Weighted life satisfaction gap between rich and poor people across European regions.
Note: 99 European regions; data EU-SILC 2013. Social capital is measured as the share of respondents with a social index equal to 2. The social capital index has a maximum score of 2 if a person trusts others and meets friends at least once per month. Life satisfaction ranges on a 0 to 10 scale, where largest scores stand for higher life satisfaction. Regional scores are divided by average life satisfaction to account for the mechanic relation between average and dispersion. Aggregated data are computed from individual data using sample weights.
Table 4.
Weighted life satisfaction gap and social capital controlling for the Gini index of income and GDP per-capita.