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Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction : Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2012
relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100684
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New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment : Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 3.3 Million Americans
Helliwell, John F. - 2011
Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as those due to lower incomes, while the indirect effect at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129126
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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality
Goff, Leonard - 2016
The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies among individuals. Its correlation with both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000535
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013145010
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Happiness and the Quality of Government
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang; Wang, Shun - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322663
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Valuing Pain Using the Subjective Well-Being Method
Ólafsdóttir, Thorhildur - 2017
Chronic pain clearly lowers utility, but it is empirically challenging to estimate the monetary compensation needed to offset this utility reduction. We use the subjective well-being method to estimate the value of pain relief among individuals age 50 and older. We use a sample of 64,205...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950060
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International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being
Helliwell, John F.; Barrington-Leigh, Christopher; … - 2021
and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal … findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder … international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238741
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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010
In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759811
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Subjective Outcomes in Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
This study examines the various uses of subjective outcomes as a focus of interest for economists. It outlines the possible channels by which economists can usefully add to what are already massive literatures on such outcomes in the other social sciences. Generally we contribute little if we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231594
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How'S Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - 2021
This paper attempts to explain international and inter-personal differences in subjective well-being over the final fifth of the twentieth century. The empirical work makes use of data from three waves of the World Values survey covering about fifty different countries. The analysis proceeds in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234031