markdownabstractSUMMARY Well-being is an umbrella concept that embraces both subjective well-being (SWB) and objective well-being (OWB). This paper confronts the problem that income, the measure that economists largely concentrate on, is not satisfactorily correlated with either. Furthermore, OWB is not closely related to SWB. So all three concepts are identifying different underlying realities and need different measures. The paper goes on to identify and discuss possible responses to these discrepancies. One is to re-specify how income, SWB or OWB are measured. Another is to ignore the discrepancies and continue to focus on measures of income or opulence. A further possible response is to replace or subsume the conce...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
ii Conventional approaches to the analysis of human well-being use money-metric measures such as inc...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
markdownabstractIntroduction I want to address the systematic and large discrepancies between dir...
This thesis uses subjective well-being data to understand the impact that an individual’s economic c...
This thesis uses subjective well-being data to understand the impact that an individual’s economic c...
Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for utility, its relationship wi...
F or good reasons, economists have had a long-standing preference forstudying peoples ’ revealed pre...
F or good reasons, economists have had a long-standing preference forstudying peoples ’ revealed pre...
Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for utility, its relationship wi...
Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for util- ity, its relationship...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
This thesis explores three major issues in the burgeoning empirical literature on the determinants o...
Subjective measures of well-being – measures based on answers to questions such as ‘Taking things al...
The economic science has often been defined as ‘dismal’. However, it witnessed the origin of a new b...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
ii Conventional approaches to the analysis of human well-being use money-metric measures such as inc...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
markdownabstractIntroduction I want to address the systematic and large discrepancies between dir...
This thesis uses subjective well-being data to understand the impact that an individual’s economic c...
This thesis uses subjective well-being data to understand the impact that an individual’s economic c...
Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for utility, its relationship wi...
F or good reasons, economists have had a long-standing preference forstudying peoples ’ revealed pre...
F or good reasons, economists have had a long-standing preference forstudying peoples ’ revealed pre...
Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for utility, its relationship wi...
Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for util- ity, its relationship...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
This thesis explores three major issues in the burgeoning empirical literature on the determinants o...
Subjective measures of well-being – measures based on answers to questions such as ‘Taking things al...
The economic science has often been defined as ‘dismal’. However, it witnessed the origin of a new b...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
ii Conventional approaches to the analysis of human well-being use money-metric measures such as inc...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...