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Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error : Evidence from the Human Development Index

Wolff, Hendrik - 2010

We measure and examine data error in health, education and income statistics used to construct the Human Development Index. We identify three sources of data error which are due to (i) data updating, (ii) formula revisions and (iii) thresholds to classify a country's development status. We...

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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid pandemic on most measures and on four bordering countries to Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022. However, the movements are not large and are not apparent everywhere....

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Mobility and Congestion in Urban India

Akbar, Prottoy A. - 2018

We develop a methodology to estimate robust city level vehicular mobility indices, and apply it to 154 Indian cities using 22 million counterfactual trips measured by a web mapping service. There is wide variation in mobility across cities. An exact decomposition shows this variation is driven...

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The Right Amount of Trust

Butler, Jeffrey - 2009

We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Our interpretation is that highly trusting individuals tend to assume too much social risk and to be cheated...

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Aging in the United States and Japan : economic trends; [papers presented at a conference in Tokyo ...]

Noguchi, Yukio (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 1994

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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress

Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … compare changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows … in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The …

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The Benefits and Costs of Guest Worker Programs : Experimental Evidence from the India-UAE Migration Corridor

Naidu, Suresh; Nyarko, Yaw; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

job seekers in India applying to guest worker jobs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Working with construction companies …

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Happiness and the Human Development Index : Australia is Not a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew - 2006

In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with...

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Happiness and the Human Development Index : The Paradox of Australia

Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and higher than all other English-speaking nations. This paper questions that assessment. It reviews work on the economics of happiness, considers implications for policymakers,...

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Using Spatial Factor Analysis to Measure Human Development

Qiu, Qihua - 2017

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model as an alternative to the Human Development Index (HDI). Our model provides methodology which can either augment or build additional indices. In addition to addressing potential issues of the HDI, we estimate human development with three auxiliary...

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