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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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Recoupling economic and social prosperity

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …

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Multidimensional well-being and regional disparities in Europe

Döpke, Jörg; Knabe, Andreas; Lang, Cornelia; Maschke, … - 2016

an aggregation based on how individual dimensions of welfare relate to average life satisfaction across regions, which …

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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016

We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being...

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Migrant well-being after leaving transition economies : evidence is mixed on whether quality of life improves for migrants from post-socialist economies

Nikolova, Milena - 2015

increases the incomes, life satisfaction, and freedom perceptions of those who move. Credibly assessing whether leaving …

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Does food insecurity impact subjective evaluation of well-being? : evidence from a developing country

Akpalu, Wisdom; Christian, Aaron K.; Codjoe, Samuel Nii … - 2015

Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted Van Praag's theoretical framework and used...

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Life satisfaction and material well-being of children in the UK

Knies, Gundi - 2012

Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …

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Bentham or Aristotle in the development process? : an empirical investigation of capabilities and subjective well-being

Graham, Carol; Nikolova, Milena - 2014

Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...

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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being

Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …

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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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