The study of international well-being and its distribution remains focused on income. This paper addresses multidimensional well-being from a capabilities perspective during the last one-and-a-half centuries. Relative inequality (population-weighted) fell in health and education since the late...

The purpose of this volume is to bring together key actors of the well-being community - pairing scholars with policy-makers - to advance the analytical and policy-making agenda at the heart of the well-being transition, at a time when this progress has become a vital necessity. At least two...

As well-being has matured as a statistical and measurement agenda, it has become increasingly relevant as a “compass” for policy, with a growing number of countries using well-being metrics to guide decision-making and inform budgetary processes. One remaining challenge has consisted in...