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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...

Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011

In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....

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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?

Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011

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Quality, Quantity and Duration of Lives

Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2015

The evaluation of development processes and of public policies often involves comparisons of social states that differ … last century. Depending on the approach taken, it is found inter alia that global social welfare in 2010 can be deemed to …

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Comparing Multidimensional Poverty with Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being

Batana, Yele Maweki - 2014

This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household …. The results show the existence of multidimensional dominance relationships between most of these countries … size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood …

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Towards a theory of life satisfaction accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016

An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those that change it. The most widely accepted theory in psychology - setpoint theory - focussed solely on stability. That theory is now regarded as inadequate since several national...

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Two-Way Causation in Life Satisfaction Research : Structural Equation Models with Granger-Causation

Headey, Bruce - 2014

Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life satisfaction could equally well be consequences, or perhaps both causes and consequences (Diener, 1984; Diener,...

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Between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being

Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009

Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...

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Two-way causation in life satisfaction research : structural equation models with Granger-causation

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2014

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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being

Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009

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Money Doesn?t Buy Happiness ... Or Does It? : A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wooden, Mark - 2004

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships with household income. The paper uses household economic...

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