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GIS data on local flood shocks to an extensive household sample from rural Southeast Asia. This allows us to contrast … flood shock, without any direct impact on a household's material well-being, can be sufficient to affect subjective well-being. …
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personal well-being. To identify potential exposure to a weather shock, we link satellite-based data on flooding to an …
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Well-Being and Fair Distribution provides a rigorous and comprehensive defense of the “social welfare function” as a tool for evaluating governmental policies. In particular, it argues for a “prioritarian” social welfare function: one that gives greater weight to well-being changes...
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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....
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