Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105031 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Oldenburg Discussion Papers in Economics No. V-343-11
Publisher: 
University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, Oldenburg
Abstract: 
Using subjective well-being data for more than 91,000 individuals in 30 OECD countries, 1990-2008, we study how people's implicit aversion towards inflation varies with income and other socio-economic characteristics. While inflation aversion decreases with income, it increases with the education level. Contrary to previous findings using statedpreferencemethods, these relationships apply not only to absolute inflation aversion, but also to the aversion towards inflation relative to unemployment. These results survive several robustness checks. The differing results concerning the roles of income and education suggest that different dimensions of being disadvantaged influence the well-being effects of inflation in different ways.
Subjects: 
inflation
unemployment
poverty
social incidence
subjective well-being
JEL: 
E31
E24
I31
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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