National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life

By Alan B. Krueger, Daniel Kahneman, D. Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, Arthur A. Stone. 2008

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Time Use and Subjective Well-Being in France and the U.S. (2009, background): “The U-index measures the percent of time that someone spends in an unpleasant state (Kahneman et al. 2006; Krueger et al. 2008).”
World happiness report (2012, background): “For surveys and examples, see Stiglitz et al. (2009), Diener et al. (2009), Krueger et al. (2009), and Layard (2010).”
Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience (2014, background): “…statistical offices, the media, and the public.1 The value of this information lies in its potential contribution to monitoring the economic, social, and health conditions of populations and in potentially informing policy decisions across these domains (Krueger et al., 2009; Layard, 2006).”
Parental Education and Parental Time with Children (2008, unknown): “8 Allowing different time use to have different disutilities would be a potential extension of the Beckerian model, as Krueger et al. (2007) discuss.”
A Measure Whose Time has Come: Formalizing Time Poverty (2016, background): “(2011), Kalenkoski and Hamrick (2013), Aguiar and Hurst (2008), and Spinney and Millward (2010) count it as”
Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day: Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed (2010, background): “the fraction of the time people spend on a specific activity that is experienced as unpleasant (Krueger et al. 2009).”
Measuring subjective well-being for public policy (2011, background): “Layard et al (2008) found that the average of life satisfaction and happiness responses gave greater explanatory power than either one on its own.”
Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare (2009, background): “68 For instance, Krueger et al. (2008) find out that American and French women seem to have different attitudes about presenting themselves as “very happy” or “happy.”
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).”