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Veenhoven, Ruut - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

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Human well-being: concepts and conceptualizations

Gasper, Des - 2004

Economic measures of income have ignored large areas of human well-being and are poor measures of well-being in the areas to which they attend. Despite increased recognition of those distortions, ‘GNP per capita continues to be regarded as the quintessential indicator of a country’s living...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279054

Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012). It examines five dimensions of deprivation: education, water, sanitation, shelter, and energy-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic...

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Measuring progress

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

difference between subjective and 'objective' measures of well-being; their limitations; what we need to improve measures of … of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the … subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select and combine measures into indicators. Subjective well-being overcomes …

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Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

beyond income has little relevance if the objective is to provide equal opportunities. …

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Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

little relevance if the objective is to provide equal opportunities. …

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

Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness

Chen, Xi - 2015

People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...

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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...

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A decomposition of multidimensional economic well-being : an application to Spanish regions

Díaz Caro, Carlos; Pérez Mayo, Jesús - 2015 - (Early draft version)

The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...

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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being

Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021

This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...

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