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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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Economic Well-Being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany

Mocan, Naci H. - 2014

The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The implications range from earnings inequality to intergenerational mobility. Using German data from various...

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