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This paper uses panel data on life satisfaction of about 40,000 individuals in Germany from 1994 to 2013 to analyze the … satisfaction in terms of incidence, intensity and in comparison to income poverty. We find a negative and significant effect of … satisfaction. The impact we find is beyond the effect of mere income poverty. We classify measures of fuel poverty into several …
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This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality within households and its contribution to overall levels of inequality in child well-being. The paper analyses the distribution of resources (outcomes) between girls and boys for four indicators: nutrition, birth registration, school...
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remain higher than their income. Thus, neither financial satisfaction (FS) nor life satisfaction (LS) adapts. The role of the …
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Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
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Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
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