Welfare polls are survey instruments that seek to quantify the determinants of human well-being. Currently, three welfare polling formats are dominant: contingent-valuation surveys, QALY surveys, and happiness surveys. Each format has generated a large, specialized, scholarly literature, but no...

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

1. Introduction: How Popular is Basic Income? -- 1.1. Basic income: From a disarmingly simple idea to a deceptively simple one -- 1.2. The popularity of basic income -- 2. Popular Support for the Ideal-typical Basic Income -- 2.1. Across the board -- 2.2. Individual differences -- 3. Popular...

Carlson and Parkin [Economica 42 (1975) 123] quantify qualitative survey data on expectations assuming aggregate expectations are normally distributed. Using UK survey data, we find normal distributions provide as accurate expectations of inflation and output growth as any permitted non-normal...