Reviewer 1: Has the difference in well-being for the rich and poor gotten larger over time in Australia according to this survey? - Githubissues

datarichard / The-increasing-cost-of-happiness

The relationship between income and happiness has changed in Australia in the last 20 years. The cost of happiness has increased.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235282732100224X

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Reviewer 1: Has the difference in well-being for the rich and poor gotten larger over time in Australia according to this survey? #17

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datarichard commented 3 years ago

Reviewer 1 (SSM0-submitted)

Has the difference in well-being for the rich and poor gotten larger over time in Australia according to this survey? If so, how much of that difference can be specifically explained by the shifting "change point" versus other features of the data (e.g., the overall income:well-being slope has gotten steeper)?

datarichard commented 3 years ago

Suggestions:

[x] Discuss Gini coefficient
[x] Discuss the difference between income inequality and the inequality in the joint distribution between income and happiness
[x] Discuss the change in slope over time in the linear/log-linear models

datarichard commented 3 years ago

The overall income:wellbeing slope has gotten slightly steeper over the period according to the linear and log-linear model results, as shown in Table S3. Given these models are not the best fitting models of the affective wellbeing function, we have restricted discussion of this point to the supplementary and only present it for the reviewers benefit.

datarichard commented 3 years ago

Add a figure of the changes in the data (not just model estimated changes)

datarichard commented 3 years ago

Added a sentence to Section 3.2 describing the changes to wellbeing for the first and last income decile between 2001 and 2019