How's life? : measuring well-being

By Costantino Balestra, Romina Boarini, M. Looper, G. Lafortune, Fabiola Riccardini, Nicolás Ruiz, Katherine Scrivens, Conal Smith, Joyce Sultan, Elena Tosetto. 2011

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• World happiness report (2012, unknown): “OECD (2011b).”
• Measures of Social Isolation (2017, methodology): “Consequently, this paper joins a very unsettled debate on the measurement of social connections (see Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi 2009; Stone 2001; OECD 2011).”
• Commuting and wellbeing: a critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019, background): “GDP as a measure of economic performance and social progress and global interest in measuring and improving people’s wellbeing (OECD, 2011).”
• The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness (2014, background): “…studies have gained so much credit over the last decade that several governments and organizations have endeavored to collect measures of subjective wellbeing to be included in national accounts and used to inform policy (Waldron, 2010, Commission 2009, Eurostat 2010, OECD 2011).”
• Are You Happy While You Work (2017, background): “In addition MacKerron (2012) has enriched the data by matching in information relating to administrative boundaries, land cover, weather and daylight across the UK, all of which may potentially influence the way individuals respond to the wellbeing questions (we return to this in Section Three).”
• Stochastic multi-attribute acceptability analysis (SMAA): an application to the ranking of Italian regions (2018, unknown): “This choice is in line with the idea of the multidimensionality of quality of life widely accepted in the literature (OECD, 2011; Stiglitz et al., 2009).”