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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391770
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2001
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276957
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762394
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
van Praag, B.M.S; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2021
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321026
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Poverty-Reducing and Welfare-Improving Marginal Public Price and Price Cap Reforms
Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2001
stochastic dominance framework. The key advantage is that the assessment as to whether pricing or price cap reforms are poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005467349
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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435763
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Income and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326410
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The anatomy of subjective well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
This paper contributes to the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) by taking into account different aspects of life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two-layer model where individual total SWB depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326415
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity , ethnicity, and war
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381986
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Relative deprivation in Tanzania
Atsebi, Bédhat Jean-Marc; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2019
This paper examines the importance of relative deprivation in Tanzania, a poor African country, using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey. We contribute to earlier literature in Africa by controlling for time persistent unobservable individual characteristics (panel data) and by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129871