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The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) for Italy
Guenno, Giorgio; Tiezzi, Silvia - 1998
We try to build a macroeconomic index, that includes some non-market variables, to be compared to the traditional GDP … optimisation to rigorously derive an index that can be used to evaluate small projects and their contribution to well being … "welfare" as compared to GDP. Our work falls in the third category. We start from the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare …
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Synopse aktuell diskutierter Wohlfahrtsansätze und grüner Wachstumskonzepte und grüner Wachstumskonzepte Synopse aktuell diskutierter Wohlfahrtsansätze und grüner Wachstumskonzepte...
Meyer, Bernd; Ahlert, Gerd; Zieschank, Roland; … - 2012
Der vorliegende Beitrag ist eine Kurzfassung zur Studie I im Rahmen des Projektes "Eckpunkte eines ökologisch tragfähigen Wohlfahrtskonzepts als Grundlage für umweltpolitische Innovations- und Transformationsprozesse" für das Bundesumweltministerium (BMU). Die Auswertung hatte zum Ziel,...
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The transition to Post-industrial BMI values among US children
Komlos, John; Breitfelder, Ariane; Sunder, Marco - 2008
Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence of longitudinal data. Our object is to estimate time series of BMI values by birth cohorts instead of measurement years. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the...
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The Impact of “Caring” Policies on Societal Issues
McThomas, Mary; Gallardo, Roberto - In: CESifo DICE Report 10 (2012) 4, pp. 32-38
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Pollution perception: An inquiry into intergenerational equity
Schumacher, Ingmar; Zou, Benteng - 2005
In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...
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Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?
Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly data on six positive and twelve negative life events in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics...
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Subjective Questions to Measure Welfare and Well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
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Grundstrukturen eines nachhaltigen Wohlfahrtsmodells und Implikationen für die Politik
Meyer, Bernd; Ahlert, Gerd; Zieschank, Roland; … - 2012
Die hier vorgestellten Überlegungen nehmen direkt Bezug auf die im Zuge der projektinternen Synopse identifizierten Unzulänglichkeiten aktuell diskutierter Wohlfahrts- und "grüner" Wachstumskonzepte in ihrem Verhältnis zu dem bislang in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland etablierten...
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Are Uzbeks better off than Kyrgyz? Measuring and decomposing horizontal inequality
Esenaliev, Damir; Steiner, Susan - 2012
We investigate horizontal inequality between two conflictive ethnic groups, the Kyrgyz and the Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, by employing the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. This technique has a long tradition in labour economics but has not been used in the literature that links ethnic inequality and...
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Recent developments in the economics of happiness: A selective overview
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2012
What makes people happy in life? This is a crucial question that has the potential to shake up economics. In recent years, the dissatisfaction with the understanding of welfare in economics together with the new opportunities to empirically study people's subjective wellbeing have spurred...
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