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Youth Well-Being in Brazil : An Index for Cross-Regional Comparisons
Dell'Aglio, Debora - 2016
This study constructs three indices to measure how well Brazil's young people are surviving their transition to … adulthood. Youth development is difficult to quantify because of the multi-dimensionality of youth behavior. Most monitoring use … a methodology developed by Duke University to measure the well-being of U.S. children and youth. It uses readily …
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Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines : Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses
Walsh, Brian James - 2019
Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...
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Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings
Witte, Caroline T. - 2019
This study analyzes whether subjective well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically used in analyses of this type of events. Using data on uprisings and subjective well-being for 118 countries from 2007 to 2014 -- a period...
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Economic Shocks and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Hariri, Jacob Gerner - 2017
This article examines how economic shocks affect individual well-being in developing countries. Using the case of a sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock affects individuals' evaluations of well-being. This...
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Sustainable and Smart Cities
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent' rules of the game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such as...
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History of Events and Life-Satisfaction in Transition Countries
Dabalen, Andrew - 2017
Using Life in Transition Survey data for 27 transition countries, the findings of this paper suggest that higher life satisfaction is correlated with lesser experience of unpleasant events such as labor market shock or economic distress, mostly in the recent past. Social capital such as trust,...
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Can Subjective Well-Being Predict Unemployment Length?
Mavridis, Dimitris - 2017
This paper uses 16 waves of panel data from the British Household Panel Survey to evaluate the role of subjective well-being in determining labor market transitions. It confirms a previous finding in the literature: individuals report a fall in their happiness when they lose a job, but they...
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
Gibson, John - 2017
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households in developing countries with and without migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity...
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The Public/Private Wage Differential in the Land of Gross National Happiness
Schmillen, Achim D. - 2017
In Bhutan, the public sector is usually seen as the most desirable employer. This study asks if this can be attributed to public sector employees receiving higher wages than comparable private sector workers. To answer the question, the study combines an Oaxaca-type decomposition of wage...
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What are Public Services Worth, and to Whom? Non-Parametric Estimation of Capitalization in Pune
Lall, Somik V.; Lundberg, Mattias K.A - 2006
The availability and quality of basic public services are important determinants of urban quality of life. In many cities, rapid population growth and fiscal constraints are limiting the extent to which urban governments can keep up with increasing demand for these services. It therefore becomes...
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