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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...

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Utility and Happiness

Kimball, Miles S.; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Psychologists have developed effective survey methods of measuring how happy people feel at a given time. The relationship between how happy a person feels and utility is an unresolved question. Existing work in Economics either ignores happiness data or assumes that felt happiness is more or...

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Do People Report Happiness Accurately?

Andreoni, James; Bernheim, Bert Douglas; Jia, Tingyan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a novel validation method: subjects report how happy they would feel (or did feel) after some specified event, as well as how they would respond (or would have responded) to a...

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Global High-Resolution Estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index Using Satellite Imagery and Machine-learning

Sherman, Luke; Proctor, Jonathan; Druckenmiller, Hannah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product for measuring national development. This is in large part due to its multidimensional nature, as it incorporates not only income, but also education and health. However, the...

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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

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Subjective well-being, income, and ethnicity in Slovakia

Želinský, Tomáš - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 26 (2022) 4, pp. 271-296

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Economic wellbeing index - developing an inclusive measure of Wellbeing and poverty among persons with disabilities

Qazi, Amar Latif - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 27 (2023) 4, pp. 269-293

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Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces : Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo

Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Blumenstock, Joshua; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

wellbeing within a rural population with fairly homogeneous baseline levels of poverty. We discuss the implications of these …

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Happiness and the Quality of Government

Helliwell, John F. - 2020

This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show...

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Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2010

Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. After a general review of past and...

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