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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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Does happiness adapt? : A longitudinal study of disability with implications for economists and judges
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor);  … - 2006
over the world currently use ad hoc methods. -- disability ; adaptation ; happiness ; legal compensation ; wellbeing ; GHQ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411731
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Which Formula for National Happiness?
Tofallis, Chris - 2019
The World Happiness Report is published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and contains an … international ranking of national average happiness, as measured by surveys of personal life evaluations. It also contains an … analysis which tries to explain the happiness figures from more than 150 countries using data on six key variables. That …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889331
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Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2021
Economics ignores the possibility of hedonic adaptation (the idea that people bounce back from utility shocks). This paper argues that economists are wrong to do so. It provides longitudinal evidence that individuals who become disabled go on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317532
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The Politics of Happiness : Subjective vs. Economic Measures as Measures of Social Well-Being
Angner, Erik - 2010
of individual welfare according to which welfare is a matter of mental states rather than preference satisfaction. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214164
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Should National Happiness Be Maximized?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2007
Cross-disciplinary 'happiness research' has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This … development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we … postulate that the appropriate approach is not to maximize aggregate happiness in seeking to improve outcomes by direct policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055391
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Estimating endogenous effects on ordinal outcomes
Chesher, Andrew; Rosen, Adam M.; Siddique, Zahra - 2019
happiness data, for which no natural cardinal scale exists, and which is thus routinely collected by ordinal response. With … applications featuring ordered outcomes, including responses to happiness surveys, researchers may wish to study the impact of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128669
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662775
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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435763