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Money Doesn?t Buy Happiness ... Or Does It? : A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wooden, Mark - 2004
but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261968
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Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavi - 2005
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267478
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Getting Warmer: Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658214
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703024
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … more rapid growth in life satisfaction. These results together suggest that measured subjective well-being grows hand in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682244
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … growth in life satisfaction. These results together suggest that measured subjective well-being grows hand in hand with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274556
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Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being: evidence from the USA
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2010
due originally to Adam Smith). There is a state-by-state match (r = 0.6, p < 0.001) between subjective and objective well …A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well …, using solely non-subjective data, in a literature from economics (so-called 'compensating differentials' neoclassical theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269621
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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278781
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Multidimensional well-being at the top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282585
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Equality of Opportunity for Well-Being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos, Xavier - 2017
little relevance if the objective is to provide equal opportunities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744652