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Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...
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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview
Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...
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Happiness and Utility in Economic Thought—Or: What Can We Learn from Happiness Research for Public Policy Analysis and Public Policy Making?
Hirschauer, Norbert; Lehberger, Mira; Musshoff, Oliver - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 3, pp. 647-674
opportunities. It is widely believed that happiness research based on self-reports on people’s satisfaction with life has made a … significant contribution to this understanding. The growing numbers of happiness studies provoke the question whether, and … answering this question, this review paper provides a survey of the general happiness conception, the formative steps of …
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Efficienza e Qualità della Vita
Patrizii, Vincenzo; Pettini, Anna; Resce, Giuliano - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2014
Il primo obiettivo di questo lavoro è proporre un metodo di aggregazione del Better Life Index (BLI), che non richieda alcuna scelta riguardo al peso relativo delle singole variabili; il secondo obiettivo è valutare l’efficienza nella produzione del BLI. Per entrambi i fini si sceglie di...
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Evidence-Based Well-Being/Positive Psychology Assessment and Intervention with Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching and the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI)
Frisch, Michael - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 193-227
>, p. 292), evidence-based approach to well being, happiness, and positive psychology intervention suitable for both … happiness. Quality of Life Therapy and Coaching is “manualized” in the form of the book entitled Quality of Life Therapy (Frisch … which attempts to integrate findings from the fields of well-being, positive psychology, happiness, quality of life, social …
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Re-emphasizing sustainable development — The concept of ‘Evolutionability’
Keiner, Marco - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 6 (2005) 4, pp. 379-392
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The Four Qualities of Life
Veenhoven, Ruut - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 1 (2000) 1, pp. 1-39
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Accounting for Unobserved Country Heterogeneity in Happiness Research: Country Fixed Effects versus Region Fixed Effects
Fischer, Justina AV - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2010
Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or not. Possibly, this ambiguity is caused by cross-section models that do not account for unobserved cultural and institutional effects. Using the World Value Survey 1980-2005,...
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The ‘Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress’ Report and Quality of Life: Moving Forward
Rojas, Mariano - In: Social Indicators Research 102 (2011) 1, pp. 169-180
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Measuring Well-Being and Progress
Luca D’Acci - In: Social Indicators Research 104 (2011) 1, pp. 47-65
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