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Title page
Contents
Abstract 3
1. Introduction 4
2. Related literature 10
2.1. Inequality and SWB 10
2.2. The role of fairness and mobility 11
2.3. Perceived vs. actual inequality 11
2.4. Perceived inequality and SWB 13
3. Conceptual framework and hypotheses development 14
4. Empirical framework 17
5. Methodological challenges and remedies 20
6. Data and variables 23
7. Results 27
7.1. Main results 27
7.2. Perceived mobility and fairness 31
8. Robustness checks and heterogeneity 34
8.1. Endogeneity 34
8.2. Reversibility 37
8.3. Model selection 39
8.4. Heterogeneity 42
9. Discussion and conclusion 44
References 48
Appendix 53
Table 1. Actual and perceived inequality in countries in the analysis sample 25
Table 2. The association between (perceived) inequality and life satisfaction 27
Table 3. The association between perceived inequality and life satisfaction, accounting for mobility and fairness 31
Table 4. The association between perceived inequality and life satisfaction, robustness checks 35
Table 5. The association between perceived inequality and life satisfaction, ordered probit and probit estimations 37
Table 6. The association between perceived inequality and life satisfaction, heterogeneity analysis 43
Figure 1. Specification Curve Analysis 41
Table A1. Variable definitions 53
Table A2. Determinants of perceived inequality 56
Table A3. Summary statistics, individual-level variables 58
Table A4. Additional summary statistics, individual-level variables 59
Table A5. Summary statistics, country-level control variables 60
Table A6. Full econometric output related to Table 2 60
Table A7. Instrumental variables regressions 63
