profound effects that policies have on the level and distribution of individuals' well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being … conceptions of well-being, and the literature on "subjective well-being" in psychology and economics. Further chapters focus … specifically on well-being measurement, and a variety of challenges for policy assessment. …

human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability … considerations, axiomatic research on poverty and deprivation, and previous empirical research on social exclusion and subjective … well-being. An application using high-quality German survey data supports the measure's validity. Specifically, the results …