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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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Introduction
Asongu, Simplice - 2018
, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998545
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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014
This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424257
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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597703
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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603850
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Relative deprivation in Tanzania
Atsebi, Bédhat Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019
This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129871
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Towards a multidimensional poverty index for Germany
Suppa, Nicolai - 2015
This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474229
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Inequalities in emerging economies : informing the policy dialogue on inclusive growth
Balestra, Carlotta; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Murtin, Fabrice; … - 2018
The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa) in a range of monetary (i.e. income) and non-monetary dimensions of people’s life (i.e. education, health status, employment and subjective well-being)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991921
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A systematic literature review on the rural-urban well-being gap in Europe
Meloni, Cesare; Rocchi, Benedetto; Severini, Simone - In: Bio-based and applied economics 12 (2023) 4, pp. 305-321
A large amount of policy support is spent to foster the development of rural areas in Europe. However, empirical evidence on the well-being differential between rural and urban areas in Europe is scant and incomplete. The present study develops a systematic literature review on this topic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480896
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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
poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449772