the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from …Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …

Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good … be calculated with manageable data requirements. Against this backdrop, a need exists for a measure of well-being that … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 …

) affordability and thermal comfort. Depending on which fuel deprivation indicator is used, we find heterogeneous associations between …

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income … of well-being. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel to measure well-being in four different ways including incomes …

development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … countries as provided by the World Bank, and show how the new measures map out different pictures of poverty and progress than … generalizations and conclude with recommendations for using this approach in development goals to track progress and direct policy. …

of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any …-being indices we propose and apply a new intensity/gap measure to multidimensional polarization, the mean minimum polarization gap 2 …DGAP. This polarization intensity measure provides transparency with regard to each single attribute, which is important …