Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than … appropriate for ordinal data, our analysis using the World Values Survey reveals that skewness of the SWL distribution, not only …

was measured as part of the SOEP. The hand grip data can be compared with other indicators of health and well-being from … that changes in hand grip strength and overall life satisfaction capture two different aspects of health status and its …Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the …

the UK Understanding Society Innovation Panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job, health, income, leisure …We analyse the results of experiments on questionnaire design and interview mode in the first four waves (2008-11) of … and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, mode of interviewing, and location of …