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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582002
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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556229
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Does the Risk of Poverty Reduce Happiness?
Caria, Antonio Stefano - 2014
We investigate the unexplored link between the risk of poverty and happiness in the context of a developing country …. Using unique longitudinal data, we estimate workers' vulnerability to income-poverty and find a strong negative relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055066
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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough : the worldwide evidence on well-being efficiency
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2017
Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or countries translate given resources into well-being. Using a balanced panel on 91 countries from Gallup Analytics between 2009-2014 and borrowing insights from production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664189
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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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431350
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess 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) identified in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164102
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Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia
Ramos Morilla, Xavier (contributor) - 2005
avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095436
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavier - 2021
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318262
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Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-Being
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2014
This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of … well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are … information than do univariate poverty comparisons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057376
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Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons With Discrete Indicators of Well-Being
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2014
This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of … well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are … information than do univariate poverty comparisons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057549