How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy … interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a …

Component Analysis. Our analysis shows that BLI increases with GDP only for poor countries, extending the Easterlin Paradox to … the quality of life measurement; that good performances in BLI are not necessarily due to a high efficiency of the whole …

conventionally measured through GDP per capita, "social prosperity" can be measured through our solidarity and agency indexes … welfare effects of globalization and automation. The dashboard is meant to provide an empirical basis for mobilizing action in …

utilitarian social welfare function yields a simple welfare measure which comprises both GDP and income inequality as measured by … gathering that something similar holds for aggregate welfare, i.e. that GDP alone is an insufficient predictor for various …Over the last decades, research in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individual welfare (utility), as …

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international … temporal trends in well-being is smaller on average, but significant for a number of countries where inequality changed … considerably in past decades. These results appear not very sensitive to the data on inequality which this analysis is based upon …

broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive link between average levels of subjective well-being and GDP per …