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Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely … of parental deaths on the well-being of children who were age 9 through 17 years old at the time of the tsunami … children before and after the tsunami, models that include child fixed effects are estimated to isolate the causal effect of …
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Rajesh Komath gives a description the conflicts between his socio-material position as a Teyyam performer, and persona/personality …
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Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...
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This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of indicators: those measures based primarily on economic well-being; those based on non-economic well-being and composite...
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This paper considers the relative importance of improvements in economic status in explaining improvements in non-monetary measures of well-being during Vietnam's economic boom in the 1990s.
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Determining whether well-being has improved is an important multidisciplinary task. It is important therefore to develop a multidimensional measure of well-being that reflects a wide spectrum of human needs. A new approach is presented in this paper based on multidimensional hierarchical human...
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Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …
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to societal EI and, secondly, to evaluate within this theoretical context the happiness dividend of the tourism economy …
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There is a burgeoning academic literature on happiness polls that has used a range of different measures and approaches … surrounding this work is well justified. These polls suggest an idea of happiness that would be broadly understood by philosophers … from Aristotle to Mill to Rawls or Parfit. Happiness studies also suggest some potential reasons why we appear to act …
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The provision
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