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Sen’s influential work on human development has led economists to explore new areas that have become increasingly important for human well-being. In particular, Sen emphasizes the importance of the "freedom to choose". Freedom, however, is not always an exact (crisp) outcome, and membership in...
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quantify recall bias, response shift, or both in the measurement of health-related quality of life. We discuss which of these … approaches are most suitable for application to SWB measurement, where only recall bias and recalibration are to be quantified …, ignoring the other two response shift types. Some approaches of bias detection will not be applicable to SWB measurement …
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Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...
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Glück, Wohlfahrtsmessung, Lebensqualität, Zufriedenheit. - Happiness, welfare measurement, quality of life …, satisfaction …
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We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...
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satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …: for a given number of years in poverty, satisfaction is lower when the years are linked together. As such, poverty …
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