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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised

of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405676

National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380028

Satisfaction with life, happiness, and inequality - a pseudo-panel study

Jensen, Søren; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2020

The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact on well-being among the population in Denmark. After a survey of the literature we use attitude variables from the European Social Survey in a pseudo-panel setting covering the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171363

Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716166

Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717717

Measuring progress

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457675

Happiness and development

Nikolova, Milena - 2016

Subjective well-being (SWB) indicators, such as positive and negative emotions, life evaluations, and assessments of having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB...

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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic … increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical … happiness. We derive a simple test of whether reversals are possible by relabelling the scores of reported happiness and deduce …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322174

The analysis of human feelings: a practical suggestion for a robustness test

Bloem, Jerey R.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603839

Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia

Ramos, Xavi - 2005

This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...

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