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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012), pp. 1-43

. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …

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Is global social welfare increasing? A critical-level enquiry

Cockburn, John; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Zabsonré, Agnès - In: Journal of Public Economics 118 (2014) C, pp. 151-162

We assess whether global social welfare has improved in the last decades despite (or because of) the substantial increase in global population. We use for this purpose a relatively unknown but simple and attractive social evaluation approach called critical-level generalized utilitarianism...

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Multidimensional poverty and child well-being in Kenya

Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Araar, Abdelkrim; Duclos, Jean-Yves - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 2, pp. 109-137

Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple …-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty and well-being. Stochastic dominance approaches are used to … contrast uni-dimensional and multidimensional poverty over health and assets. The results show that children with the lowest …

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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...

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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being...

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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin; Sacks, Daniel W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...

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