Well‐being in the welfare state: Level not higher, distribution not more equitable

By R. Veenhoven. 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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In General Health Professions

1. E. Diener
2. Martin E. P. Seligman
3. Benjamin Radcliff
4. Alexander Pacek
5. E. Smyth
6. T. Fahey
7. R. Veenhoven
8. Sarah Mercer

In Health

1. E. Diener
2. Martin E. P. Seligman
3. Benjamin Radcliff
4. Alexander Pacek
5. E. Smyth
6. T. Fahey
7. R. Veenhoven
8. M. Hagerty

In Social Psychology

1. E. Diener
2. Martin E. P. Seligman
3. Alexander Pacek
4. R. Veenhoven
5. Benjamin Radcliff
6. D. Vella‐Brodrick
7. T. Fahey
8. E. Smyth

Citations in the corpus

• Sociological theories of subjective well-being (2009, result): “This absence of a difference appears both in a comparison of nations in the early 1990s and in a comparison over time within nations (Veenhoven, 2000b).”
• The four qualities of life: Ordering concepts and measures of the good life (2013, methodology): “See for instance Cummins (1994), Spilker (1996) and Veenhoven (2000a).”
• Assessing the Welfare State: The Politics of Happiness (2008, background): “16 E.g., Watson and Clark 1991; Myers 1993; Myers and Diener 1997.”
• Greater Happiness for a Greater Number (2010, unknown): “That classification is discussed in more detail in Veenhoven (2000a).”
• Welfare Policy and Subjective Well-Being Across Nations: An Individual-Level Assessment (2008, methodology): “ Veenhoven (2000) , for instance, relies mostly on raw expenditure data as his indicator of welfare state effort—a practice that, as we review below, is out of sync with contemporary research on the welfare state.”
• Healthy happiness: effects of happiness on physical health and the consequences for preventive health care (2008, unknown): “Contrary to common expectation, there appears to be no relationship between spending on social security and health outcomes in nations, nor a relationship with happiness (Veenhoven, 2000a).”
• Beyond Money (2004, background): “Veenhoven (2000) found that economic freedom had a stronger effect on wellbeing in poor nations than in wealthy nations, whereas political freedom was more important in wealthier nations than in poor nations.”
• Return of Inequality in Modern Society? Test by Dispersion of Life-Satisfaction Across Time and Nations (2005, background): “I have discussed these concepts in more detail elsewhere (Veenhoven, 2000).”
• Do subjective indicators measure welfare?: Evidence from 33 European societies (2004, background): “They have paid little attention to the distribution of subjective well-being, that is, to differences in the degree of inequality in subjective well-being across countries (for a rare exception, see Veenhoven 2000).”
• Apparent quality-of-life in nations : how long and happy people live (2005, background): “I have investigated this matter in more detail elsewhere and found indeed that people are not happier and healthier in nations with lavish social security systems than in equally rich nations where the providential state is less openhanded (Veenhoven 2000c).”
• Inequality Of Happiness in Nations (2005, background): “The subject of inequality of happiness has been addressed by Chin-Hon-Foei (1989), Veenhoven (1990, 1995, 2000, 2002) and recently by Cummins (2003) and by Fahey & Smith (2003).”