Measuring Well-being: A Multidimensional Index Integrating Subjective Well-being and Preferences

Measuring Well-being Inequality with a Multidimensional Gini Index

Individual well-being is inherently a multidimensional concept. Any attempt to measure inequality of well-being should take this multidimensionality explicitly into account. In this paper we propose to measure well-being inequality by a multidimensional generalization of the Gini coe¢ cient. We follow a normative procedure and derive two Gini indices of well-being inequality from their underlyi...

Viewpoint: Measuring and understanding subjective well-being

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. We describe the main measures of subjective well-being (SWB) and provide examples of policy-relevant research findings, including new accou...

Measuring global progress through subjective well-being

Progress could in principle be measured through the change over time of average scores of subjective well-being. However, the existing longitudinal data show little improvement. These survey results are intrinsically insensitive to developments over time, because SWB is typically evaluated relative to proximate, and therefore salient, reference points, such as peers or expectations based on rec...

Subjective well-being

This paper examines the notion of “subjective well-being” as it is used in literature on subjective measures of well-being. I argue that those who employ the notion differ at least superficially on at least two points: first, about the relationship between subjective well-being and well-being simpliciter, and second, about the constituents of subjective well-being. In an effort to reconcile the...

Subjective well-being.