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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values

Winters, John V. - 2012

Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in real wages where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured. Previous...

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Subjective measures of economic well-being and the influence of income uncertainty

Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …

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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2012

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

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Beyond GDP and back: What is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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Intensity of time and income interdependent multidimensional poverty: Well-being and minimum 2DGAP - German evidence

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...

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The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; van der Berg, Servaas - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries

Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J.; Tausch, Arno - 2007

simply added together the ranks on different measurement scales, we present a much more sophisticated approach, with the …

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The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2002

implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in … that East Germans experienced a continued improvement in life satisfaction after 1990 to which increased household incomes …

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Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

general life satisfaction question, differs between youths living in intact and non-intact families, holding many other …

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Building a Better Theory of Well-Being

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2003

What do social surveys of life cycle experience tell us about the determinants of subjective well-being? First, that the psychologists? setpoint model is wrong. Life events in the nonpecuniary domain, such as marriage, divorce, and physical disability, have a lasting effect on well-being, and do...

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