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Welfare Measurement and Poverty Targeting Based on Participatory Wealth Rankings
Wiegand, Martin - 2020
from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare …. They tend to be well received by participants but point to a systematically different understanding of welfare than implied … by consumption-based rankings. This suggests that PWRs could be used as the basis for alternative welfare measures that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427186
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - 2002
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325001
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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis
van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2007
After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325462
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Abolishing GDP
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2007
public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and … on the most important criticisms of GDP as an indicator of social welfare and economic progress. It further examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325488
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2010
In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325687
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, B.M.S - 2010
It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the reference process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191144
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325983
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Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114759
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The Health Penalty of China's Rapid Urbanization
de Poel, E. Van; O'Donnell, O.; Doorslaer, E. Van - 2009
not obvious. It is, however, highly pertinent to the human welfare consequences of development. This paper uses community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325929
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The Health Penalty of China's Rapid Urbanization
van de Poel, Ellen - 2010
not obvious. It is, however, highly pertinent to the human welfare consequences of development. This paper uses community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012715441