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Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015

the quality of life measurement; that good performances in BLI are not necessarily due to a high efficiency of the whole … system; and that social efficiency is the best predictor of development. …

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Embedding as a pitfall for survey-based welfare indicators : evidence from an experiment

Hetschko, Clemens; Reumont, Louisa von; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017 - This version: March, 2017

results show that survey-based measures might suffer from strong embedding effects and, as a result, may fail to measure …

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Growth, income distribution, and well-being : comparisons across space and time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international …

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Health adjusted GDP (HAGDP) measures of the relationship between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare

Clarke, Matthew; Islam, Sardar M. N. - 2003

adjusted GDP indicator to investigate the relationship between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare in both a …

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Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the Easterlin paradox

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2008

The "Easterlin paradoxʺ suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level …

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Recoupling economic and social prosperity

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human wellbeing, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...

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Determinants of human development : capturing the role of institutions

Binder, Michael; Georgiadis, Georgios - 2011

In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing … institutionally driven heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process … as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human Development Index (HDI). We do so within a novel dynamic panel modelling …

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … ; development ; Easterlin Paradox ; well-being-income gradient ; hedonic treadmill …

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Subjective well-being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: April 16, 2013

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised

This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...

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