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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...

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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …

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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data

Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019

persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …

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Happy times : measuring happiness using response times

Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2023

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are commonly used to analyze such data, suffer from a fundamental identification problem. Their conclusions depend on unjustified assumptions about the...

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Social contacts, unemployment, and experienced well-being : evidence from tim-use data

Thi Truong An Hoang; Knabe, Andreas - 2022

We use the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/15 to analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the gap in experienced well-being between employed and unemployed persons. We observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The...

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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries : a preliminary survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-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...

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What can economists learn from happiness research?

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that happiness research is able to contribute important...

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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

using individual preference satisfaction techniques. This paper analyses the health outcomes resulting from economic growth …

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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

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 variety of quality of life indicators according...

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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...

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