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constant correction to survey-derived inequality estimates. Underreporting of income by the bottom 50% of the world income …
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Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
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Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a novel validation method: subjects report how happy they would feel (or did feel) after some specified event, as well as how they would respond (or would have responded) to a...
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This paper argues that measures of life satisfaction, now being collected annually by the Gallup World Poll in more …
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We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment …
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Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested - and four negative affect variables - pain … reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …
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Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics research, with recent calls to use them in policymaking. Researchers have used SWB data in novel ways, for example to learn about welfare or preferences when choice data are...
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' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which …
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World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and …
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-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic …
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