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Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

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Happiness and development

Nikolova, Milena - 2016

provides an overview of the SWB approach and offers insights into whether and how SWB measures can inform development theory …

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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble....

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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the world happiness report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity)...

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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being

Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …

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Bentham or Aristotle in the development process? : an empirical investigation of capabilities and subjective well-being

Graham, Carol; Nikolova, Milena - 2014

Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...

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The development and happiness of very young children

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016

The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)...

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Early-life correlates of later-life well-being : evidence from the Wisconsin longitudinal study

Clark, Andrew E.; Lee, Tom - 2017

We here use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) to provide one of the first analyses of the distal (early-life) and proximal (later-life) correlates of older-life subjective well-being. Unusually, we have two distinct measures of the latter: happiness and eudaimonia. Even after...

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Home alone: widows' well-being and time

Adena, Maja; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; … - 2021

-being. We confirm a dramatic decrease in mental health and life satisfaction after the loss of partner, followed by a slow …

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A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter : evidence from ten countries

Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021

the data sourced from Twitter, we exploit various survey data sources, such as the Eurobarometer and consumer satisfaction …

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