Non-monetary dimensions of well-being: A comment

Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being

We use two waves of a population based survey (the RAND American Life Panel) to investigate the relations between various evaluative and experienced well-being measures based on the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, the Gallup Wellbeing Index, and a 12-item hedonic well-being module of the Health and Retirement Study. In a randomized set-up we administered several versions of the survey with...

Personality Dimensions and Subjective Well-Being

Personality dimensions and subjective well-being.

This work examines the association between personality dimensions (extraversion and neuroticism) and subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is associated both with extraversion and neuroticism, and currently, neuroticism is generally considered the more important. A total of 368 students from the University of Rovira i Virgili completed the Extraversion and Neuroticism subscales of the re...

Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor

Poverty is arguably the most pressing economic problem of our time. And because rising inequality, for a given level of income, leads to greater poverty, the distribution of income is also a central concern. At the same time, monetary policy is one of the modern age’s most potent tools for managing the economy. Given the importance of poverty and the influence of monetary policy, it is natural ...

Monetary valuation of informal care: the well-being valuation method.

This paper estimates the monetary value of providing informal care by means of a well-being valuation method. This is done by assessing the compensating variation necessary to maintain the same level of well-being after an informal caregiver provides an extra hour of informal care. The informal caregiver's well-being is proxied by the answer to two subjective well-being questions that were pose...