agreement between the weights elicited with different methods. External validity was determined by the degree to which weights … elicited in this experiment agreed with weights that were elicited with managers of the Department of Energy. In terms of …

deepened over time, though fell in relative terms, with catching-up driven by longevity during the epidemiological transition …

aggregates country-level attainments in life expectancy, schooling and income. The main change was to relax the past assumption … greatly reduced its implicit weight on longevity in poor countries, relative to rich ones. By contrast, the new HDI …'s valuations of extra schooling are now very high—many times the economic returns. An alternative index is proposed that embodies …

rural areas, controlling for age, ethnicity, and years of schooling. Two caveats dampen this place premium effect: schooling …