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Wellbeing rankings
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471233
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Documenting and explaining the dramatic rise of the new society journals in economics
Ham, John C.; Wright, Julian; Ye, Ziqiu - 2023
An important recent event in the economics field is the introduction of seven new society journals. Using standard iterative ranking methodologies from economics, as well as some new methodologies, we demonstrate the spectacular rise of these journals while updating journal rankings for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318282
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International evidence on well-being
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008
National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679395
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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011
world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523002
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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803715
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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough : the worldwide evidence on well-being efficiency
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2017
Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or countries translate given resources into well-being. Using a balanced panel on 91 countries from Gallup Analytics between 2009-2014 and borrowing insights from production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664189
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Tony Atkinson's new book, Measuring Poverty around the World : some further reflections
Brandolini, Andrea; Micklewright, John - 2020
parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157324
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325714
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Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves
Aaberge, Rolf (contributor) - 2008
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations two alternative sequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779034