, with the goal of providing practical approaches for measuring opportunity freedom and the extent of capabilities … practical approaches for measuring opportunity freedom and the extent of capabilities.key results from the measurement of …This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom, or the extent to which a set of options …

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 the freedom space can take place gradually. This paper proposes a … framework that uses fuzzy-set theory to measure human well-being in consistence with Sen’s Capability Approach. The results …

economics and social psychology the paper provides a theory and empirical evidence of how individuals may value freedom of … European Values Surveys we find a variable that measures freedom and control to be the best predictor of life satisfaction … well both freedom and control. The implications of this finding for economics range from utility and choice theory to …

This study examines the causal effect of the violent "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran during the last quarter of … 2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted … that the violent protest environment had a significant and negative effect on life satisfaction in Iran. To determine the …

This paper considers how lay theory and perceptions of issue ownership affect voters' expectations of political and …

above. A 1-standard-deviation (SD) increase in IF is associated with an increase in 11-point life satisfaction (LS) by 0 …

income RD has a ‘’status effect’’— higher income of others in the reference group reduces life satisfaction. Both objective …