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All in the Family : How Do Social Capital and Material Wellbeing Affect Relational Wellbeing?

Menon, Martina - 2014

family wellbeing and satisfaction. We assess wellbeing using four dimensions of satisfaction with family life: satisfaction … capital matters for family life satisfaction …

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A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being

Song, Younghwan - 2015

Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are...

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The Cost of Well-Being

Pettini, Anna - 2015

Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...

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Infrastructure and subjective well-being from a gender perspective

Alarcón García, Gloria; Buendía Azorín, José Daniel; … - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22

Mainstreaming gender analysis into all aspects of policy making, including infrastructure and economic policy, is a key aspect to achieving gender equality. The main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of several public infrastructures on well-being by gender, applying the...

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The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality : Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously

Grimes, Arthur - 2020

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than …

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Subjective well-being, income, and ethnicity inSlovakia

Želinský, Tomáš - 2021

that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …

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Mind the Gap : Identifying Latent Objective and Subjective Multi-Dimensional Indices of Well-Being

Corrado, Luisa - 2016

Within the OECD Better Life Initiative, the Better Life Index (BLI) represents a major attempt to measure well-being and societal progress beyond GDP, following up the recommendations outlined in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission report. Using a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach, we...

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Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy

Odermatt, Reto - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress

Anand, Paul - 2016

welfare economics, as well as the economic literature on life satisfaction, and use it to generate novel data for the USA and … UK consistent with all the components of the theory. We use these data to illustrate some of the life quality analyses …, we consider the extent to which life satisfaction and daily activities depend on resources and non-cognitive skills. The …

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A Happiness and Objective Well-Being Index (HOW-IS-IL) for Living and Working in the State of Illinois, 2016-17

Golden, Lonnie - 2017

An inaugural index is introduced to measure and track the well-being and happiness of Illinois' citizens and workers. It draws on existing indicators and the happiness and well-being research literature. Similar to other such indexes, that quantify both objective and subjective well-being...

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