Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,331
Cover Image
The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305432
Cover Image
Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the Easterlin paradox
Stevenson, Betsey (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2008
comparisons in determining happiness. -- Happiness ; subjective well-being ; Easterlin Paradox ; life satisfaction ; economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751098
Cover Image
The societal responses to Covid-19 : evidence from the G7 countries
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper provides a new picture of how countries have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the effects of the pandemic in terms of normative foundations for societal wellbeing. Social prosperity depends primarily on the functioning of four domains: the economy, the state, civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514534
Cover Image
Happiness, economy and institutions
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2000
A cross-regional econometric analysis suggests that institutional factors in the form of direct democracy (via initiatives and referenda) and of federal structure (local autonomy) systematically and sizeably raise s elf-reported individual well-being. This positive effect can be attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781520
Cover Image
Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well … to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of … of population groups who feel left behind by globalization and technological advance, may be viewed in terms of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171696
Cover Image
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, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514115
Cover Image
Health adjusted GDP (HAGDP) measures of the relationship between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare
Clarke, Matthew; Islam, Sardar M. N. - 2003
using individual preference satisfaction techniques. This paper analyses the health outcomes resulting from economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509333
Cover Image
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 … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697413
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736745
Cover Image
The KOF Globalisation Index : revisited
Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Potrafke, Niklas; Sturm, … - 2018
We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006 … along the different dimensions of globalization. We also disentangle trade and financial globalization within the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011954444