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Approaches to well-being, use of psychology and paternalism in economics
Collewet, Marion - 2014
insights from psychology to support their positions: Scitovsky's Joyless Economy, happiness economics, and the constitutional … normative step, is revealed by the choice of a psychological theory or method rather than resulting from the application of a … theory or method. Secondly, this paper demonstrates that personal judgement by the authors is often needed in the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413237
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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
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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
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Happiness in the lab : what can be learned about subjective well-being from experiments?
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Goff, Sandra H. - 2021
The recent surge in analyses of subjective well-being (SWB) and the economics of happiness using large observational datasets has generated stylized facts about the relationship between SWB and various correlates. Because such studies are mostly concerned with the determinants of SWB, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626714
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey … of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively … related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of a tenured position decreases satisfaction. However, the extent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040007
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Chapter Sixteen. Functionings and Capabilities
Kaushik, Basu; Lòpez-Calva, Luis F. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2, (pp. 153-187). 2011
Traditional economics identifies a person's well-being with the goods and services the person consumes and the utility that the person gets from such consumption. This, in turn, has led to the widely used approach of welfarism that uses individual utilities as ingredients for evaluating a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025192
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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 research utilizing such reports is in trouble....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322174
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Happiness and development
Nikolova, Milena - 2016
provides an overview of the SWB approach and offers insights into whether and how SWB measures can inform development theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517733
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the world happiness report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431350
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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey - 2022
We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242743