Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being and Poverty: An Economic Perspective

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• 作者：Khadija Shams
• 关键词：Subjective well ; being ; Poverty evaluation ; Socio ; economic indicators ; Economic perspective
• 刊名：Journal of Happiness Studies
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：6
• 页码：2213-2236
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Quality of Life Research; Personality and Social Psychology; Economics, general; Quality of Life Research; Philosophy, general; Positive Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7780
• 卷排序：17

文摘

Drawing on unique survey data for rural Pakistan, we estimate a happiness model to explore to what extent an economic perspective adds to our understanding of subjective wellbeing poverty. The data elicits information on subjective well-being in general and particularly on financial well-being in terms of household’s happiness with the current income or expenditure. We find that the well-being approach closely depicts the idea of well-being poverty in terms of the level education, health and income which matter significantly. Moreover unlike developed nations this study suggests a positive impact of children on well-being and poverty due to their productive contribution. As studies employing good data from developing countries are rare, this paper can potentially make a good contribution to the existing happiness literature, with special reference to Pakistan. Secondly, it brings new and strong empirical evidence to alternative approaches to subjective well-being poverty.