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Recoupling economic and social prosperity

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...

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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income

Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can …

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Inequity aversion, welfare measurement and the Gini index

Schmidt, Ulrich; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018

utilitarian social welfare function yields a simple welfare measure which comprises both GDP and income inequality as measured by …

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Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality

Boudreaux, Christopher John; Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, … - 2021

Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only …

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The relationship between subjective wellbeing and subjective wellbeing inequality: taking ordinality and skewness seriously

Grimes, Arthur L.; Jenkins, Stephen; Tranquilli, Florencia - 2020

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than … described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices … inequality, matters for individual SWL outcomes; so too does whether we look upwards or downwards at the (skewed) distribution …

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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income

Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020

life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195532

Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures

Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016

: material standard of living, parental education, and parental childcare time. We compute multidimensional inequality and … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …

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Estimating multidimensional poverty in Zambia

Mahrt, Kristi; Masumbu, Gibson - 2015

In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the methodology to evaluate welfare by rural...

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Multidimensional assessment of child welfare for Tanzania

Arndt, Channing; Leyaro, Vincent; Mahrt, Kristi; Tarp, Finn - 2016

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi-dimensional approaches, first-order dominance (FOD) and Alkire-Foster (AF). Between 1991/92 and 2010, remarkably similar area rankings emerge that suggest a widening gap between...

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An absolute multidimensional poverty measure in the functioning space (and relative measure in the resource space) : an illustration using Indian data

Dotter, Caroline; Klasen, Stephan - 2019

In this paper we develop a multidimensional poverty measure that attempts to capture absolute poverty in the functioning space. As suggested by Sen, if the measure aims to be absolute in the functioning space, it needs to be relative in the resource space. To generate a relative measure, this...

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