We estimate the distributional effects of freedom and income on happiness for East Asian Chinese societies through an … ordinal parametric quantile regression approach. The results show that freedom and income exhibit positive and significant … quantiles. However, the income effects decline as the quantile level increases. Thus, one may have a trade-off between freedom …

This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom , or the extent to which a set of options … the effective freedom relation—and their variations are considered within a common axiomatic framework. Special attention … is given to representations of freedom rankings, with the goal of providing practical approaches for measuring …

functioning bundles and interpersonal comparisons of well being -- Freedom and individual well being -- Freedom A re examination … attached to the individual’s achievements along certain dimensions of life and her freedom to choose a vector of such …

institutions are complementary with culture, income and the political system in generating satisfaction with freedom. … the satisfaction people express with their freedom of choice. Using a sample of 133 countries over the period 2008 … related to satisfaction with freedom above and below a threshold level. Freedom of assembly is more positive for satisfaction …

studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person's happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those … our model. We restrict our empirical studies to four East Asian countries, which are South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China …