The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income …

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income … ; high income countries ; general well being ; poverty ; human development ; assessing capabilities …

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … explain income dissatisfaction best among all dichotomizations of income. To this end, several model settings are considered … lines is also investigated. -- Household income ; poverty line ; income satisfaction …

We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from … reference effects in the determination of income satisfaction. We show that this adjustment helps to overcome a bias causing an …

detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …