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Public policy and inequalities of choice and autonomy
Burchardt, Tania; Evans, Martin; Holder, Holly - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This article explores the conceptualisation of choice as autonomy using three components – self-reflection, active … autonomy should be addressed – poverty, ill health and geographical inequality – because they place significant restrictions on … decision-making, and quality and range of options - and investigates empirical inequalities in autonomy, using newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746616
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Beyond Non-Satiation: Needs and Requirements
Pettini, Anna - 2014
The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480814
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Beyond non-satiation : needs and requirements
Pettini, Anna - 2014
The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461277
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Beyond Non-Satiation: Needs and Requirements
Pettini, Anna - CESifo - 2014
The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097939
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Inequality, Decomposition of Inequality and Stationarity of State Domestic Product: An Empirical Evidence from Twenty Indian States
Pandey, Alok Kumar; Dixit, Annapurna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper an attempt has been made to detect stationarity and inequality of the State Domestic Product among twenty … states of Indian Federal System. For the purpose, time series and panel data has been utilized. Inequality in SDP and per … indices. An attempt has been made to decompose inequality by using panel data. Indices of inequality are higher for SDP in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110304
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Revisiting the evidence for a cardinal treatment of ordinal variables
Schröder, Carsten; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - 2015
Well-being (i.e., satisfaction, happiness) is a latent variable, impossible to observe directly. Hence, questionnaires ask people to grade their well-being in different life domains. The most common practice-comparing well-being by means of descriptive analysis or linear regressions-ignores that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288151
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The Ranking Measure of Life Satisfaction: A Constructive Critique
Köke, Sonja; Perino, Grischa - 2015
Life satisfaction (LS) is used as a welfare-measure in many different ways to inform about what makes people better off and even to quantify tradeoffs between different things like putting a monetary value on environmental goods. All these welfare analyzes rely on the ability of the measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301765
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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed inthe nineties by Oswald ,Clark , Blanchflower and others with the older incomeevaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in theseventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325594
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Como as famílias brasileiras avaliam a suficiência de seus rendimentos segundo a POF 2002-2003: Implicações para um índice de qualidade de vida
Pessoa, Marcelo de Sales; da Silveira, Marcos Antonio … - 2010
The work investigates the demographic, economic and social determinants of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian househols with their income. For that, a ordered logit model is estimated in order to explain the performance of a subjective indicator of income sufficiency built with basis on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330474
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Indicadores objetivos e subjetivos de qualidade de vida das famílias brasileiras segundo a POF de 2002-2003: Um estudo sobre seus determinantes demográficos, sociais e econômicos...
Pessoa, Marcelo de Sales; da Silveira, Marco Antonio C. - 2009
This paper uses an ordered logit model to investigate the demographic, economic and social determinants of the performance of some partial life quality indicators for Brazilian households, based on the POF 2002-2003 survey on life conditions evaluation. Some indicators have a subjective content,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330713