全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w15887
来源ID	Working Paper 15887
	Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being
	John F. Helliwell; Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
发表日期	2010-04-08
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour. After a general review of past and potential uses for subjective well-being data, and a discussion of why some economists have previously been sceptical of SWB data, we present global and Canadian examples from our own research to illustrate what can be learned. Differences in subjective well-being will be shown to be large and sustained across individuals, communities, provinces and nations. Although the patterns of subjective well-being are very different across Canada than across the world, we show that in both cases the differences can be fairly well accounted for by the same set of life circumstances. Our examples of policy-relevant research findings include new accountings of the differences in individual-level SWB assessments around the world and across Canada. These highlight the importance of social factors whose role has otherwise been hard to quantify in income-equivalent terms.
主题	Other ; General, Teaching ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Economic Systems
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w15887
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573562
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	John F. Helliwell,Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh. Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being. 2010.

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