| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14720 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14720 |
| International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being | |
| John F. Helliwell; Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh; Anthony Harris; Haifang Huang | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-02-13 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper uses the first three waves of the Gallup World Poll to investigate differences across countries, cultures and regions in the factors linked to life satisfaction, paying special attention to the social context. Our principal findings are: First, using the larger pooled sample, we find that answers to the satisfaction with life and Cantril ladder questions provide consistent views of what constitutes a good life, with an average of the two measures providing a clearer picture than either measure on its own. Second, we find strong evidence for the importance of both income and social context variables in explaining within-country and international differences in well-being. For most specifications tested, the combined effects of a few measures of the social and institutional context are as large as those of income in explaining both international and intra-national differences in life satisfaction. Third, the very significant influences of both income and social factors permit the calculation of compensating differentials for social factors. We find very large income-equivalent values for key measures of the social context. Fourth, the international similarity of the estimated equations suggests that the large international differences in average life evaluations are not due to different approaches to the meaning of a good life, but to differing social, institutional, and economic life circumstances. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Other ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14720 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572396 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John F. Helliwell,Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh,Anthony Harris,et al. International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being. 2009. |
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| w14720.pdf（263KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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