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Comparing Multidimensional Poverty with Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being

Batana, Yele Maweki - 2014

This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood ratio. Empirical applications are based on the DHS...

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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness

Chen, Xi - 2015

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

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Life satisfaction and material well-being of children in the UK

Knies, Gundi - 2012

that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … measures of child poverty, introduced to help target effective policies that make a real difference to children's lives. Those …

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On the measurement of human well-being : fuzzy set theory and Sen's capability approach

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina N. - 2004 - Revised version

Sen’s influential work on human development has led economists to explore new areas that have become increasingly important for human well-being. In particular, Sen emphasizes the importance of the "freedom to choose". Freedom, however, is not always an exact (crisp) outcome, and membership in...

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Subjective well-being, income, and ethnicity inSlovakia

Želinský, Tomáš - 2021

that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …

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Son preference and multidimensional well-being

Ali, Mehwish Ghulam; De Silva, Ashton; Sinclair, Sarah; … - 2025

Son preference, or desire by parents for male offspring, is a common gender bias that obstructs policy efforts towards the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality. The gendered nature of well-being calls for a multidimensional approach. Popular measures are often...

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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 …

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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016

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Multidimensional poverty in Nigeria : first order dominance approach

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Olaniyan, Olanrewaju; … - 2014

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

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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 …

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