| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23111 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23111 |
| Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index | |
| Daniel J. Benjamin; Kristen Cooper; Ori Heffetz; Miles S. Kimball | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-01-30 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Many in both government and academia are showing renewed interest in developing new measures of national well-being. A new measure that goes “beyond GDP” to comprehensively capture non-market goods could be a useful supplement to traditional economic indicators for guiding policy and more accurately tracking welfare. But how should national well-being be conceptualized in theory? How could it be measured in practice? How could it be constructed in a systematic and politically neutral way? These questions should be approached by economists with the same level of care that has been taken in the theoretical and practical development of GDP. In this short paper, we focus on one conceptual framework (Benjamin, Heffetz, Kimball, and Szembrot, 2014), which uses self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey questions to construct an index of well-being. We briefly review the framework and highlight challenges in the first two steps a government agency would need to take before conducting the SWB and SP surveys: (1) formulating a set of aspects of well-being that is theoretically valid and can be measured accurately via surveys; and (2) choosing and interpreting the surveys’ response scales. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Data Collection ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23111 |
| 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/580785 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniel J. Benjamin,Kristen Cooper,Ori Heffetz,et al. Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index. 2017. |
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| w23111.pdf（411KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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