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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424257
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457675
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716166
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171363
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475830
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597703
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603850
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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582002
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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556229