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Effects of Objective and Subjective Income Comparisons on Subjective Wellbeing

Hodkinson, Brennan; Visser, Martine - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

We present results from the Cape Area Panel Study dataset investigating how social comparisons with regard to income … social comparisons affect subjective wellbeing, both relative to neighbours and relative to oneself in the past. Objective … measures of wellbeing also influence happiness, but this is more prevalent in interpersonal than inter-temporal comparisons. It …

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Measuring economic well-being and sustainability : a practical agenda for the present and the future

Ven, Peter J. van de - In: Eurostat review on national accounts and macroeconomic … (2019) 1, pp. 7-41

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator from the system of national accounts. Although often interpreted as an indicator for (economic) well-being, it first and foremost monitors economic activity, and falls short of reflecting broader measures which try to capture...

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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: True PPPs for 141 Countries

Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

I set out a new method for estimating true (Konüs) PPPs. Household consumption per head deflated by these PPPs answers the question: by how much must the average expenditure per head of poor country A be increased to enable the typical inhabitant of A to enjoy the same utility level as the...

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The wealth and poverty of nations: true PPPs for 141 countries

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income but a broader spectrum of dimensions is required to draw the picture of multiple facets of individual life. In our study of multidimensional polarization we extend the income...

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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

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Family Money, Relational Life and (Class) Relative Wealth : An Empirical Analysis on Life Satisfaction of Secondary School Students

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2014

We investigate factors affecting happiness on a sample of Italian secondary school students. We find that money matters since family's house ownership, mortgages and (class) relative wealth significantly affect life satisfaction. Other crucial factors are geographical residence (those living in...

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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income

Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020

Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life," such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....

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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income

Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020

Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....

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Family money, relational life and (class) relative wealth: an empirical analysis on life satisfaction of secondary school students

Becchetti, Leonardo; Pisani, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2012

We investigate factors affecting happiness on a sample of Italian secondary school students. We find that money matters since family’s house ownership, mortgages and (class) relative wealth significantly affect life satisfaction. Other crucial factors are geographical residence (those living...

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