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Getting Warmer : Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2022

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the …

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested – and four negative affect variables – pain … ranks lowest - just below South Sudan. The Nordic countries that traditionally rank high using life satisfaction do not rank …

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Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...

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Transition from Plan to Market, Height and Well-Being

Adserà, Alícia - 2019

Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...

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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2021

The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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A Happy Choice : Wellbeing as the Goal of Government

Frijters, Paul - 2019

In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...

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A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being

Song, Younghwan - 2015

Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are...

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Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy

Odermatt, Reto - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey - 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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How Threatening are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?

Kaiser, Caspar; Vendrik, Maarten - 2021

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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