| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w11925
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 11925
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| Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox |
| Andrew Leigh; Justin Wolfers
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| 发表日期 | 2006-01-16
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| 出版年 | 2006
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score would predict. This conclusion also holds when we turn to a larger cross-national dataset than the one used by Blanchflower and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita in place of the HDI. Indeed, in the World Values Survey, only one other country (Iceland) has a significantly higher level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys conducted since the 1940s, which have consistently found that Australians report high levels of wellbeing. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Poverty and Wellbeing
; Development and Growth
; Country Studies
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w11925
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/569576
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Andrew Leigh,Justin Wolfers. Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox. 2006.
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