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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 … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759811
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James X. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078194
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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2021
wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247011
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758453
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The Well-Being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK
Bell, David N.F. - 2018
In this paper we build on our earlier work on underemployment using data from the UK. In particular, we explore their well-being based on hours preferences rather than on involuntary part-time work used in the prior literature. We make use of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914269
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Population, Technology, and Growth : from the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. - 2021
This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247642
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The Gift of the Dying : The Tragedy of Aids and the Welfare of Future African Generations
Young, Alwyn - 2022
orphaned children. On the other hand, widespread community infection lowers fertility, both directly, through a reduction in … attainment, the fertility effect dominates. The AIDS epidemic, on net, enhances the future per capita consumption possibilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308646
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2021
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225019
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Fairness Versus Welfare : Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice
Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven - 2021
In Fairness versus Welfare, we advance the thesis that social policies should be assessed based entirely on their effects on individuals' well-being. This thesis implies that no independent weight should be accorded to notions of fairness (other than many purely distributive notions). We support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232881
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Tall But Poor : Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland
Nicholas, S.; Steckel, Richard H. - 2021
This paper uses height data recorded on Convict Indents to study temporal patterns and regional differences in living standards in pre-famine Ireland. The approach is explicitly comparative and makes use of information from America and other parts of Europe. The Irish attained roughly the 16th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216523