The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality.

By Gary S. Becker, Tomas J Philipson, Rodrigo R. Soares. The American Economic Review, 2005

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Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic (2020, background): “Economists typically compare economic costs to human lives using one of three approaches: attaching a monetary value to human life (Viscusi, 1993; Rowthorn, 2020), estimating the indirect mortality that economic losses could imply (Ray and Subramanian, 2020), or resorting to social welfare de ned as”
Sustainability and the measurement of wealth (2012, positive): “19 Our approach is an extension of approaches taken by Nordhaus (2002) and Becker et al. (2005).”
Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth (2008, positive): “However, in spite of the convergence in life expectancy across countries during this period (see, for example, Becker et al., 2005 ), in 2000 there was still an immense gap between the rich and the poor world: life expectancy was 78 years in OECD countries but only 47 years in Sub-Saharan Africa, w”
Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition (2011, neutral): “2 Beyond the effect of life expectancy on income, reductions in mortality may increase individual well being directly by extending the lifetime horizon or the quality of life, as investigated, e.g., by Becker et al. (2005 ) o r Murphy and Topel (2006).”
Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything that Matters is Converging (2005, neutral): “6. Philipson and Soares (2001) also note the strong convergence in life expectancy over 1962–97, and Becker, Philipson, and Soares (2003) note that based on this life expectancy convergence, ‘‘full’’ income measures that account for life expectancy are also converging worldwide.”
The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-Being (2009, positive): “Di¤erent degrees of diminishing returns can be captured by different values for the parameter r in the transformation function (6), introduced by Becker et al. (2005).”
International Comparisons of Living Standards by Equivalent Incomes (2009, positive): “For u 0 and ε we retain the same values as Becker et al. (2005).”
Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines. NBER Working Paper No. 13947. (2008, neutral): “Over the past fifty years, longevity has improved dramatically, particularly in developing countries, with welfare gains comparable to the welfare gains from income growth (Becker, Philipson, and Soares 2005).”
How individualism–collectivism orientations predict happiness in a collectivistic context (2009, background): “Portugal was characterized by Hofstede (1980) as collectivist and, in spite of its economic and human development improvement ( Becker et al. 2003; UNDP 2005), recent data from the GLOBE project (Jesuino 2002; House et al. 2004) continue to classify the country as (in-group) collectivistic (Table 1”
MULTIDIMENSIONAL SOCIAL EVALUATION: AN APPLICATION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (2010, neutral): “The reader is referred to the works of Osberg (1985), Anand and Sen (1994a, 1994b), Philipson and Soares (2001), Osberg and Sharpe (2002), Pinilla and Goerlich (2003), Becker et al.”