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Subjective questions to measure welfare and well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002

This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...

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Income and well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002

income effect differing between richer and poor individuals. The analysis uses a self-reported measure of satisfaction with …

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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation

Humpert, Stephan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 123-142

The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General … Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong … gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or parental activities affect only female life satisfaction, males …

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Lower in rank, but happier: the complex relationship between status and happiness

Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2016

Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness. In observational data, however, identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste from birth. In data on 1000...

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Wellbeing evidence for the assessment of progress

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence; Peichl, Andreas - 2016

welfare economics, as well as the economic literature on life satisfaction, and use it to generate novel data for the USA and …, we consider the extent to which life satisfaction and daily activities depend on resources and non-cognitive skills. The …

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On the measurement of human well-being : fuzzy set theory and Sen's capability approach

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina N. - 2004 - Revised version

Sen’s influential work on human development has led economists to explore new areas that have become increasingly important for human well-being. In particular, Sen emphasizes the importance of the "freedom to choose". Freedom, however, is not always an exact (crisp) outcome, and membership in...

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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...

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The development and happiness of very young children

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016

The paper demonstrates how Sen’s (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP,...

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The development and happiness of very young children

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016

The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)...

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Does food insecurity impact subjective evaluation of well-being? : evidence from a developing country

Akpalu, Wisdom; Christian, Aaron K.; Codjoe, Samuel Nii … - 2015

Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted Van Praag's theoretical framework and used...

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