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Environment, Well-Being, and Experienced Preference
Welsch, Heinz; Ferreira, Susana - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 7 (2014) 3-4, pp. 205-239
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the use of subjective well-being data in environmental economics. This article discusses the conceptual underpinnings of using such data as a tool for preference elicitation and non-market valuation. Given the connection of those data to the notion of...
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Technological affluence and subjective well-being
Kavetsos, Georgios; Koutroumpis, Pantelis - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (2011) 5, pp. 742-753
This study measures the welfare effects of technological goods using a recent European pooled cross-sectional dataset. We find that fixed and mobile phones, music players and personal computers, including those with an Internet connection, are associated with significantly higher levels of...
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The impact of climate on life satisfaction
Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2437-2445
We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 79 countries using data from the World Values Survey. Climate is described in terms of ‘degree-months’ calculated as the cumulated monthly deviations from a base temperature of 65°F (18.3°C). Our results suggest that...
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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics
Biewen, Martin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) November, pp. 1-10
A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …
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The Relationship between Individual Labour Market Outcomes, Household Income and Expenditure, and Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand from 1983 to 2003
Stillman, Steven; Le, Trinh; Gibson, John; Hyslop, Dean; … - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2012
, and inequality and poverty in New Zealand using detailed data from the 1983/84 – 2003/04 Household Economic Survey (HES … examine the determinants of the levels and changes in poverty in New Zealand using both expenditure and income data. We also … apply a newly developed methodology for combining income and expenditure data to produce poverty indicators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856281
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Economic Growth from the Household Perspective: GDP and Income Distribution Developments Across OECD Countries
Causa, Orsetta; Araujo, Sonia; Cavaciuti, Agnès; Ruiz, … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276803
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Social Living Standard in Russian in 2010
Izryadnova, Olga; Misikhina, Svetlana - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2011
This paper deals with incomes of Russian population, as well as the issues of inequality an poverty in the country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617683
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Social Living Standard in Russian in 2011
Misikhina, Svetlana - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2012
This paper deals with incomes of Russian population, as well as the issues of inequality an poverty in the country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617686
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004151