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Happiness and development
Nikolova, Milena - 2016
Subjective well-being (SWB) indicators, such as positive and negative emotions, life evaluations, and assessments of having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517733
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380028
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The analysis of human feelings: a practical suggestion for a robustness test
Bloem, Jerey R.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603839
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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 … happiness. We derive a simple test of whether reversals are possible by relabelling the scores of reported happiness and deduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322174
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716166
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On the curvature of the reporting function from objective reality to subjective feelings
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor) - 2008
I suggest the idea of a reporting function, r(.), from reality to feelings. The 'happiness' literature claims we have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652716
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Does happiness adapt? : A longitudinal study of disability with implications for economists and judges
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor);  … - 2006
over the world currently use ad hoc methods. -- disability ; adaptation ; happiness ; legal compensation ; wellbeing ; GHQ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411731
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Well-being across America
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2009
; happiness ; geography ; GHQ ; Easterlin Paradox ; mental health ; depression ; life course …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923896
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A cross-state comparison of measures of subjective well-being
Song, Younghwan - 2015
of affect – net affect and the U-index – are uncorrelated with the objective quality-of-life ranking of the fifty states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347231
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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data
Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014
the individuals. These findings highlight the importance of the choice of well-being measure for policy making. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423769