Level and Inequality of Happiness in Nations: Does Greater Happiness of a Greater Number Imply Greater Inequality in Happiness?

By Jan Ott. 2005

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. Simone M Schneider
2. R. Veenhoven
3. M. Berg
4. Jan Ott
5. J. Nawijn
6. A. Abdel-Khalek
7. M. Hagerty
8. Ondrej Mitas

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Simone M Schneider
2. R. Veenhoven
3. M. Berg
4. Jan Ott
5. M. Hagerty
6. J. Nawijn
7. Ondrej Mitas
8. Jesper J. Rözer

Citations in the corpus

• Choosing dimensions: the capability approach and multidimensional poverty. CPRC Working Paper No. 88. (2007, unknown): “…Narayan 2000 39 Alkire 2005a, Alkire 2005b, Argyle and Martin 1991, Clark 2005, Comim 2005, Diener 2000, Frey and Stutzer 2002, Layard 2005, McGillivray 2005, Ng 1997, Ng 2003, Oswald 1997, Ott 2005, Ryan and Deci 2001, Veenhoven 1993, Veenhoven and co-workers 1994 inter alia 40 Sen 1985 p. 48 F .”
• Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations (2005, unknown): “Ott (2005) discusses this matter in more detail in this issue.”
• Income inequality and happiness in 119 nations. In search for an optimum that does not appear to exist (2010, background): “Ott (2005) does exactly this in his paper.”
• Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions (2016, methodology): “A few employ other indices, such as the Theil Index and the Atkinson measure (Schwarze and Härpfer 2007), income dispersion ratios (Blanchflower and Oswald 2003; Ott 2005), and/or simple inequality statistics, e.”
• Good Governance and Happiness in Nations: Technical Quality Precedes Democracy and Quality Beats Size (2010, result): “…gender equality, as measured by the Gender Development Index, and physical safety and healthcare,14 may serve as mediating variables in the relation between good governance and happiness.15 This interpretation fits much of the earlier research on societal conditions for happiness (e.g. Ott 2005).”
• Inequality Of Happiness in Nations (2005, background): “Several philosophers think that this is so, and taking the above as a starting point, Ott (2005) checks whether this is the case indeed.”