Search Results - subject_exact:"Standard of living"

Over-indebtedness : measurement, determinants and effect on living standards

Ewusie, Ewura-Adwoa; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2025

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Did the US annexation of Puerto Rico in 1898 increase the biological standard of living of its population? : a first anthropometric approach

Moreno Lázaro, Javier - 2024

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Distributional national accounts : measuring material living standards and the cost-of-living by income quintile

Grilli, Joseph; Schreyer, Paul; Zwijnenburg, Jorrit - 2026

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The well-being cost of inflation inequalities

Prati, Alberto - 2024

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The well-being cost of inflation inequalities

Prati, Alberto - 2022

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The hidden objectivism of revealed-preference welfare economics

Kolmar, Martin - 2026

Revealed preference theory (RPT) and its behavioral extension (BRPT) underpin an important strand of welfare economics. Their normative appeal rests on the claim that welfare can be inferred from observed behavior without substantive assumptions about what agents should value - a property I call...

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Impact of green energy policies on sustainable standards of living in South Africa : an ARDL and Toda-Yamamoto approach

Ibitoye, Julius Oyebanji; Kleynhans, Ewert - 2024

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(Male) wages in Switzerland, 1750-1860

Baltensperger, Michael; Chambru, Cédric; Metzler, Jakob; … - 2026

We estimate daily wage rates for skilled and unskilled construction workers and agricultural laborers in Switzerland from 1750 to 1860, a period of profound political and economic transformations. Our analysis is based on 17,700 newly collected wage quotes from primary sources and 23,300 price...

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Household consumption expenditure determinants across poverty subgroups in Sub-Sahara Africa : evidence from the Ghanaian living standard survey

Agyepong, Lawrence; Kuuwill, Ametus; Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon - 2026

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Living standards in Angola, 1760-1975

Carvalhal, Hélder; Palma, Nuno - 2026

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Living standards in Angola, 1760-1975

Carvalhal, Hélder; Palma, Nuno - 2024

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Living standards in Angola, 1760-1975

Carvalhal, Hélder; Palma, Nuno - 2024

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Socio-economic trade-offs of large hydropower development for community livelihoods in Bagmati province, Nepal

Neupane, Gunaraj; Pianrog, Yutthapong; Kuaanan Techato; … - 2026

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Agricultural household survey 2025

2026

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Boomers

Schouten, John W. - 2026

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The Easterlin paradox at 50

Oparina, Ekaterina; Clark, Andrew E.; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2026

We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries from 2009-2019 at both the individual and country levels to revisit the relationship between income and subjective wellbeing. Our inspiration is the paradox first proposed by Easterlin (1974), according to which higher incomes are associated...

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The Easterlin paradox at 50

Oparina, Ekaterina; Clark, Andrew E.; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2024

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Population aging and living arrangements : implications on inequality

Lee, Sang-hyop; Mason, Andrew; Kim, Hyun Kyung - 2026

Many previous studies conclude that population aging leads to an increase in consumption or income inequality. The results are based on a conventional model that analyzes compositional effects given interage differences in the means and variances of income. These issues are addressed in this...

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The health and economic costs of welfare reform : a quasi-experimental evaluation of the roll-out of Universal Credit in England

Amo-Agyei, Silas; Munford, Luke; Daras, Konstantinos; … - 2026

We provide new evidence on the mental health and healthcare utilisation impacts of the rollout of Universal Credit, one of the most significant welfare reforms in Europe in recent decades. Designed to simplify the benefit system and strengthen work incentives by merging six meanstested...

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Policy impact assessment : Autumn Budget Statement 2026 : UK-wide distributional analysis 2026-2030

Frimpong, Rejoice - 2026

Purpose and scope: This analysis assesses the cumulative impact of the Autumn Budget Statement 2025 on UK residents over the period 2026-2030. The Budget has been passed by Parliament and will be implemented beginning in April 2026. This report models policy impact on the UK population using...

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Universal credit review : challenges and options for reform

Waters, Tom - 2026

The government is in the process of conducting a review of universal credit (UC), the main means-tested benefit for working-age people, received by 6.3 million families at any one time. This report discusses some of the challenges UC faces, and outlines potential directions for reform.

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Labour market, living standards and poverty trends in Wales

Michael, Jed; Wernham, Tom - 2026

The Welsh Government aims to increase employment and earnings as part of its 'Plan for Employability and Skills', and in order to help generate additional tax revenues that can help fund public services and investment. It also aims to reduce inequalities in employment and earnings, and has clear...

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Labour market, living standards and poverty trends in Scotland

Michael, Jed; Wernham, Tom - 2026

The Scottish Government aims to increase employment and earnings as part of its 'National Strategy for Economic Transformation' and in order to help generate additional tax revenues that can help fund public services and investment. It also has ambitious targets to significantly reduce poverty,...

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Thresholds for time and income poverty in households : evidence from joint distributions

Dorn, Franziska - 2026

Time poverty is a key yet conceptually contested dimension of household living standards. Both univariate and bivariate measures remain debated because there is no clear consensus on how to define and quantify socially necessary unpaid work, the time that money cannot substitute for, across...

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Army, tax reforms, and well-being in eighteenth-century Russia

Mustafin, Arthur R. - 2026

This article examines archival records on crop yields and recruit numbers in eighteenth-century Russia, analyzing their dynamics and comparing them with data on recruits' height as an indicator of changes in the standard of living. The study uses more than one hundred and ten archival sources,...

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Measuring cost of living inequality during an inflation surge

Chen, Tao; Levell, Peter; O'Connell, Martin - 2026

We study the welfare cost of inflation during the 2021–2023 UK inflation surge using household scanner data on fast-moving consumer goods. We develop and implement a non-homothetic, index number-based decomposition of inflation-driven welfare changes into exposure, substitution, and income...

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Measuring cost of living inequality during an inflation surge

Chen, Tao; Levell, Peter; O'Connell, Martin - 2025

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The well-being value of sport for loneliness and depression

Schoemaker, Jelle; Boer, Willem I. J. de; Davies, Larissa; … - 2026

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Building communism by numbers : the Third Program of the CPSU and the economics of Soviet welfare targets

Fokin, Aleksandr A.; Pivovarov, Nikita Y.; … - 2026

This article reinterprets the Third Program of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) in 1961 as a rational, auditable social contract for the Soviet one-party state rather than a utopian manifesto. Reconstructing its Stalin-era prehistory-from drafts by Dmitry Manuilsky, Mark Mitin,...

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Intra-urban waterscapes and household welfare in Kumasi, Ghana

Gwaindepi, Abel; Baidoo, Samuel Tawiah - 2026

Universal access to water is widely treated as a marker of development progress, yet this paper shows that formal connection can function as a welfare liability rather than an asset. Using original survey data from 1,791 households across three neighbourhoods in metropolitan Kumasi, Ghana, we...

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Estimating the magnitude and scope of disability-related direct costs : a systematised review

Banks, Lena Morgon; Morris, Zachary; Rotenberg, Sara; … - 2026

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Inflation bites differently : household consumption, welfare, and poverty during the 2022 European energy crisis

Badino, Nicolò; Cardullo, Gabriele; Sechi, Agnese - 2026

How much a household suffers from inflation depends on what it consumes. We show that this simple observation links household expenditure behavior to inflation inequality, welfare losses, and poverty. Building on a non-homothetic CES demand system, we derive household-specific exact...

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Stagnant living standards in the City of Toronto

Eisen, Ben; Li, Nathaniel - 2026

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Dynamic assessment of material living conditions across europe : a window data envelopment analysis approach

Henriques, Carla Oliveira; Marcenaro Gutiérrez, Oscar David - 2026

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CEP wellbeing coefficient database : a credibility-rated evidence compendium for wellbeing appraisal

Frayman, David; Krekel, Christian; Layard, Peter R. G.; … - 2026

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The benchmark consumption coverage ratio : a cross-country indicator of income adequacy

Maryanichenko, Bogdan - 2026

This study introduces the benchmark consumption coverage ratio (BCCR), a benchmark-referenced consumption coverage ratio that expresses price-adjusted median equivalised disposable income as coverage of a selected market consumption benchmark. It positions the BCCR within the broader family of...

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Water, land, materials, and emissions for providing decent living standards around the world

Vélez-Henao, Johan Andrés; Streeck, Jan; Kikstra, Jarmo; … - 2026

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Social innovation as a driver of household standard of living : Insights from selected states in Nigeria

Abdul, Falilat Ajoke - 2026

In developing economies, grassroots-level interventions that reconfigure existing systems showed increasing potential for poverty reduction and welfare enhancement. This study investigated how social innovation dimensions influenced household economic welfare among smallholder farmers in...

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The Easterlin Paradox : misconceptions about economic growth and happiness

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2026

The Easterlin Paradox refers to the apparent contradiction between the cross-sectional and time-series relationships between GDP per capita and evaluative happiness - at a point in time, countries with greater GDP per capita are on average happier, but over time, longrun GDP growth does not...

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Does a higher standard of living support traditional gender roles in the labor market?

Mustafayeva, Kamala Babayeva - 2026

This paper examines the relationship between economic development and gender gaps in labor-force participation in Southeastern European countries. Using panel data for nine countries over the period 2000-2023, the study estimates fixed-effects models with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors to...

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The impact of climate on Indian households' living costs

Qu, Yuhang; Maddison, David J.; Elliott, Robert J. R.; … - 2026

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Options for reforming personal independence payment : IFS green budget chapter

Latimer, Eduin; Oulton, Matthew; Waters, Tom - 2026

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From tradition to opportunity : the sustainable livelihood approach of Jaipur Rugs

Kumari, Nisha; Raju, Indukuri Bangar; Paruchuru, Manjushree - 2026

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Energy poverty and children’s subjective well-being : evidence from young lives data

Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung; Le, Hai - 2026

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Principal component analysis : points of association between cancer and economic development

Székely Kovácsné, Ilona; Fenyvesi, Éva; Pintér, Tibor - 2023

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4. Innovation and economic well-being

Soete, Luc; Verspagen, Bart - 2026

Innovation is typically seen as a result of research and development, and as causing economic growth in the sense of an increase in productivity and per capita income. The authors argue that economic well-being also has other dimensions, and try to quantify this using a database with many...

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Standard of living in European Union countries

Topolewski, Łukasz; Topolewska, Kamila - 2023

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The South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) : a high-growth, resource-rich strategic crossroads in the focus of geo-economic tensions

Barisitz, Stephan - 2025

The three South Caucasus economies - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - have performed relatively well since the COVID-19 pandemic, benefiting from certain spillovers of Russia's war against Ukraine. The oil importers Armenia and Georgia achieved double-digit GDP growth in 2022 - 12.6% and 11.0%,...

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The South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia): A high-growth, resource-rich strategic crossroads in the focus of geo-economic tensions

Barisitz, Stephan - 2025

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Household livelihood strategies and forest resource use in rural West Bengal, India

Mukherjee, Promita; Ray, Biswajit - 2026

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Asia's carbon footprint : unraveling the role of natural resource rent, standard of living and energy consumption

Imran, Muhammad; Chen, Mo; Khalilullah, Mohammad; Min, Gao - 2025

Amid escalating climate risks and uneven decarbonization trajectories, understanding the distributional determinants of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is essential for guiding Asia toward equitable and sustainable development. Anchored in the Environmental Kuznets Curve framework and the...

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Lives, livelihoods, and learning : a global perspective on the well-being impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Friedman, Jed; Mendes, Arthur; … - 2026

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Lives, Livelihoods, and Learning : A Global Perspective on the Well-Being Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Decerf, Benoit - 2024

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Employing data imputation to track poverty and welfare trends over extended time periods : an application to a poorer country

Dang, Hai-Anh; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2025

Obtaining comparable poverty estimates over time is critical for monitoring poverty trends and informing effective poverty reduction policies. Yet hardly any developing countries could construct consistent poverty trends over extended time periods due to changes to the consumption survey...

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Effects of land transfer on family living standards : evidence from middle-aged and older farmers in China

Li, Chengyou; Liu, Anran; Wang, Zeru; Li, Qinghai - 2026

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The making of humanistic economics

Komlos, John - 2025

The essay traces the evolution of my academic career through three stages: as a Habsburg economic historian, an anthropometric historian, and as a humanistic economist exposing the Achilles hills of mainstream economics and tracing the roots of the rise of the current right-wing populist...

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Livelihood transitions as responses to social-ecological stressors : insights from the Central Coast of Viet Nam

Truong, Van Tuyen; Tong, Thi Hai Hanh; Phuong, Huynh Anh; … - 2026

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