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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data
Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014
We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423769
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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data
Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014
We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462001
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Chapter 2. Inequality, Income, and Well-Being
Decancq, Koen; Fleurbaey, Marc; Schokkaert, Erik - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 67-140). 2015
social relations and of the environment, employment, and job satisfaction. In this chapter we survey the economic literature … functionings) approach, the use of subjective life satisfaction measures, and the calculation of equivalent incomes. We discuss the … respected and where in each approach the boundaries of individual responsibility are drawn. We compare the measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025349
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Attitudes to income inequality : experimental and survey evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2014
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350420
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436192
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406589
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756895
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation : An Empirical Link
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2021
concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318984
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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902869
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Individual well-being in a dynamic perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2007 - This version: February 2007
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628625