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on Economics of Happiness |
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Issue of 2025–04–14
five papers chosen by Viviana Di Giovinazzo, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca |
| By: | Parviainen, Sinikka; Pyle, William |
| Abstract: | This Policy Brief examines the economic well-being of Russian households in the wake of warrelated sanctions, leveraging ten years of data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS). Building on macroeconomic indicators suggesting resilience, we analyze subjective wellbeing, consumption patterns, and financial security across demographic and geographic groups. Our general findings point to increased satisfaction and savings, although we also find disparities. Ethnic Russians, for one, appear to be doing relatively well, whereas the opposite holds for retirement age citizens. The results offer insight into Russia's adaptability to sanctions and carry implications for political stability. |
| Keywords: | Russia, households, economy, sanctions, war |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:bofitb:314418 |
| By: | Amelia Blamey (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research); Arthur Grimes (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research) |
| Abstract: | We present a distributional matching approach to harmonise life satisfaction scores collected on different scales. We apply the method to two concurrent official New Zealand surveys, one with an 11-point scale and one with a 5-point scale. The optimal mapping from the 11-point to the 5-point scale, which minimises the residuals, is: 0-2 (1), 3-4 (2), 5-6 (3), 7-8 (4), and 9-10 (5). This mapping holds for most subsample populations, with exceptions observed among more marginalised groups. |
| Keywords: | Life satisfaction scales; mapping; ordinal data |
| JEL: | I31 |
| Date: | 2025–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mtu:wpaper:25_02 |
| By: | World Bank |
| Keywords: | Education-Education Indicators and Statistics Gender-Gender and Education Health, Nutrition and Population-Adolescent Health Social Protections and Labor-Skills Development and Labor Force Training |
| Date: | 2023–10 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wboper:40499 |
| By: | GUISAN, Maria-Carmen |
| Abstract: | The International Development Reports IDER-2023 include 4 reports: 3 on comparative analysis of 8 Latin American countries for the period 1950-2021 and one report dedicated to analyse health resources and scores in European countries for 1996-2019, in comparison with the United States and the World average. We include a comparison of several indicators of economic development and quality of life in Latin American countries, regarding, real production per capita, manufacturing production per capita, educational level of population, life satisfaction, quality of government, peace and freedom. The averages of each of those indicators in 8 Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela) were usually around World average and below the average of Top OECD countries. Industrial Development, the Educational level of Population, Economic Freedom and Quality of Government had shown a positive impact for the period 1950-2021. Regarding the report on health resources we find that real expenditure per capita has increased around a 100% for the period 1996-2019, both in many European countries and at World level, what usually has a highly positive in health resources and quality of services. European countries show higher levels that world average in the indicators of doctors and nurses per thousand people and expenditure per capita, being Switzerland one of the countries with the best indicators of rsources and general score of quality of services. |
| JEL: | O5 O51 O52 O53 O54 O55 O56 O57 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eaa:ecodev:129 |
| By: | Fernández Nuez, Berta |
| Abstract: | In tackling knowledge structures and power injustices that would allow for each one of us to live better lives, data – its uses, constructions and consequences – has become a factor of change. In this paper, the consideration of data justice takes a new road in the inquiry of the nature of wellbeing and justice. Using the capability approach, first, the paper discusses the constraints of agentic elements within individual justice. Secondly, inserted among traditional debates of wellbeing, life-satisfaction approaches are pinpointed to secure a definition of what means to live well within each one of ours perceptions. By reviewing these incongruencies in the applicability of the capability approach within data justice frameworks, the paper seeks to establish the consequences of taking an ‘emotional distance’ in the inquiry of people’s wellbeing and justice. By accounting for the need of more humanistic ways of analysis, the paper stands on the strengths of the sensorium as a scope that considers an unlimited array of points of entry for thinking, sensing and being. This paper anticipates new possibilities for data representation by focusing on ‘data futures’ that welcome creative, sensorium knowledge-making. These possibilities go beyond mainstream Western epistemologies and ontologies and instead, focus on more inclusive and contextual world-making practices. |
| Keywords: | data justice, wellbeing, capability approach, sensorium, data futures |
| Date: | 2025–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iob:wpaper:2025.01 |