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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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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...

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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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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 …

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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 …

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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted … that the violent protest environment had a significant and negative effect on life satisfaction in Iran. To determine the …' locations. The protest environment reduced the probability of life satisfaction by 3.7 percentage points. Moreover, we find …

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The biological standard of living in the two Germanies

Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001

Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in the two Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectionalsample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...

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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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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...

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Recoupling economic and social prosperity

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

to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …

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