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Disability and Multi-Dimensional Quality of Life : A Capability Approach to Health Status Assessment

Anand, Paul - 2019

This paper offers an approach to assessing quality-of-life, based on Sen's (1985) theory, which it uses to understand loss in quality-of-life due to mobility-impairment. Specifically, it provides a theoretical analysis which is able to account for the possibility that some functionings may...

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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which has been rising …

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A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being

Song, Younghwan - 2015

Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective measure of well-being. Whereas the measures of affect – net affect and the U-index – are...

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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity)...

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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Layard, Richard - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …

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Unfairness at Work : Well-Being and Quits

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018

correlated with subjective well-being, both in terms of cognitive evaluations (life and job satisfaction) and affect (the …

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested – and four negative affect variables – pain … ranks lowest - just below South Sudan. The Nordic countries that traditionally rank high using life satisfaction do not rank …

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Social Restrictions and Well-Being : Disentangling the Mechanisms

Foliano, Francesca; Tonei, Valentina; Sevilla, Almudena - 2022

Using a nationally representative 24-hour diary survey covering the first two years of the pandemic, we explore the mechanisms underlying the changes in wellbeing for men and women. We exploit the variation in the stringency of social restrictions implemented by the UK government during this...

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Wellbeing Evidence for the Assessment of Progress

Anand, Paul - 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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Ageing, Health, Loneliness and Wellbeing

Tani, Massimiliano - 2020

Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...

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