Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being

By Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger. 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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Measures of Social Isolation (2017, background): “Frequency of social contact has strong links with well-being, allows estimation of the level of objective social isolation, and is a proxy for meaningful relations (Kahneman and Krueger 2006; Krueger et al. 2009; Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi 2009).”
Are Female-Headed Households More Food Insecure? Evidence from Bangladesh (2010, background): “Clark (1997), Kahneman and Krueger (2006), van Praag, Frijters, and Ferrer-iCarbonell (2003) also discuss about the reliability of subjective measures but in different contexts.”
Weights in Multidimensional Indices of Wellbeing: An Overview (2013, neutral): “Also, the rapidly emerging literature on the determinants of happiness and life satisfaction shows that people s overall satisfaction is a¤ected by many aspects of life, such as their health, employment, material resources and marital status (Kahneman and Krueger 2006).”
Driving to opportunity local rents, wages, commuting costs and sub-metropolitan quality of life (2015, methodology): “3 Beyond amenity indices, the essential insight of equal indirect utility across areas has also been used by McDuff (2011) to predict migration flows and Kim et al. (2009) to explain intra-city wage differentials. 4 A recent unpublished working paper by Bieri et al. (2013) performs an analysis simil”
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? (2011, background): “Kahneman & Krueger ( 2006 ) presented a graph obtained from the Gallup Organization, which had conducted surveys of respondents in China in 4 years within the period 1994–2005.”
Valuation Techniques for Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: (2011, neutral): “25 how one feels now (Kahneman and Krueger, 2006).”
Leisure Time, Leisure Activities, and Happiness in China (2015, background): “cated that the predicted probability of a female being very happy was less than 5%, the probability of a female being very unhappy was 13.7%. The predicted probability of a female being just happy was 42.4%. Age had no significant correlation (γ1=-0.016, p>.10) with happiness. This result is consist”
Travel Time and Subjective Well-Being (2013, background): “Experienced utility is the way that people feel in real time, which is akin to Diener’s second definition of SWB focusing on having positive emotional experiences (2).”
College Students' Motivations for Facebook Use and Psychological Outcomes (2014, background): “Further, research suggests that social relationships are one of the major determinants of individuals’ life satisfaction (Kahneman & Krueger, 2006).”
Different Things Make Different People Happy: Examining Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being by Gender and Parental Status (2011, positive): “This variable was shown to be a reasonably valid and reliable indicator of the cognitive aspect of human well-being (e.g. Kahneman and Krueger 2006 ).”
Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning (2019, background): “This model assumes that people are the best judges of their own lives because they can assess their well-being by assigning relative weights to various hedonic experiences over time (Kahneman et al., 1999; Kahneman & Krueger, 2006).”
Connecting quality of life, tourism specialization, and economic growth in small island destinations: The case of Malta (2018, background): “Core domains of the subjective approach have been incommensurate with individuals' consistent choices and learning experience, and seem more related to circumstances and the satisfaction of others rather than revealing their life preferences (Kahneman & Krueger, 2006).”