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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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Mandeville on charity schools : happiness, social order and the psychology of poverty
Pongiglione, Francesca; Tolonen, Mikko - In: Erasmus journal for philosophy and economics : EJPE 9 (2016) 1, pp. 82-100
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487228
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Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda : a broad perspective
Verpoorten, Marijke - 2014
This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we consider a long time period so as to compare the current situation with the pre-war situation, allowing us to assess whether the recent successes can be attributed to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418141
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Are poor people less happy? : findings from Melanesia
Feeny, Simon; McDonald, Lachlan; Posso, Alberto - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 64 (2014), pp. 448-459
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489237
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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449772
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Do Sen's capabilities determine happiness? : evidence from a unique survey data
Hasan, Hamid; Khan, Hayat - In: International journal of happiness and development 2 (2015) 2, pp. 160-181
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411159
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Poverty and happiness : an examination of the factors influencing happiness among the extreme poor in rural Ghana
Ayerakwa, Hayford M.; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac - 2015
happiness levels across the different social strata are the same, especially among the poor and the neglected. Using data from … the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty survey in Ghana, we analyse the factors that influence happiness among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496116
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Energy poverty and subjective well-being in China : new evidence from the China family panel studies
Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2021
Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adults aged 18 and over. In addition to documenting EP rates in the range of 13.2% to 35.3% (dependent on measurement used), we show that EP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549446
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Happiness and alleviation of income poverty impacts of an unconditional cash transfer programme using a subjective well-being approach
Kilburn, Kelly; Handa, Sudhanshu; Angeles, Gustavo; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603969
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Poverty measurement : we know less than policy makers realize
Gibson, John K. - 2015
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