| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19950 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19950 |
| The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales | |
| Timothy N. Bond; Kevin Lang | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-03-06 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We show that, without strong auxiliary assumptions, it is impossible to rank groups by average happiness using survey data with a few potential responses. The categories represent intervals along some continuous distribution. The implied CDFs of these distributions will (almost) always cross when estimated using large samples. Therefore some monotonic transformation of the utility function will reverse the ranking. We provide several examples and a formal proof. Whether Moving-to-Opportunity increases happiness, men have become happier relative to women, and an Easterlin paradox exists depends on whether happiness is distributed normally or log-normally. We discuss restrictions that may permit such comparisons. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; History ; Labor and Health History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19950 |
| 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/577624 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Timothy N. Bond,Kevin Lang. The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales. 2014. |
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