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The Rule of Law : Measurement and Deep Roots

Gutmann, Jerg - 2016

This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well-being … more rapid growth in life satisfaction. These results together suggest that measured subjective well-being grows hand in …

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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries : A Preliminary Survey

Volkert, Juergen H. W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being … in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human …

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Health, Wealth and Inequality : A Contribution to the Debate About the Relationship between Inequality and Health

Carson, Scott A. - 2021

The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the 19th century relationship between material inequality and...

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Living Standards in Black and White : Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 - 1913

Carson, Scott A.; Maloney, Thomas - 2021

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...

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