Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

By John F. Helliwell, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh. 2010

135 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Health, Social Psychology

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In General Decision Sciences

1. Lindsey Jones
2. P. Downward
3. John F. Helliwell
4. R. Layard
5. Rob Simmons
6. Alina Petrescu

In Health

1. Lindsey Jones
2. R. Layard
3. J. Sachs
4. Shangyi Mao
5. P. Downward
6. Peter Dawson
7. John F. Helliwell
8. Hau Chyi

In Social Psychology

1. Lindsey Jones
2. R. Layard
3. J. Sachs
4. John F. Helliwell
5. Peter Dawson
6. Shangyi Mao
7. P. Downward
8. Hau Chyi

Citations in the corpus

• Resilience isn't the same for all: Comparing subjective and objective approaches to resilience measurement (2018, methodology): “The ladder and other related methods have been used in a wide variety of contexts and have been shown to have validly in reflecting core components of an individual's quality of life (Diener, 2012; Helliwell & Barrington-Leigh, 2010).”
• Some Like It Mild and Not Too Wet: The Influence of Weather on Subjective Well-Being (2012, unknown): “Such positive and negative affects are effectively measured as part of time-use surveys, or what Krueger et al. (2009) refer to as their approach of National Time Accounting (see also Helliwell and Barrington-Leigh 2010; Diener et al. 2009).”
• World happiness report (2012, background): “E.g. Helliwell (2008) and Helliwell & Barrington-Leigh (2010).”
• The Determinants of Happiness of China’s Elderly Population (2012, background): “For example, Helliwell (2010) argues that differences of subjective well-being among individuals are largely explicable by the same theoretically plausible variables.”
• Is it Pleasure or Health from Leisure that We Benefit from Most? An Analysis of Well-Being Alternatives and Implications for Policy (2016, background): “This has been aligned to the ‘decision utility’ captured in axiomatic economic theory (Kahneman, 1999; Helliwell and Barrington-Leigh, 2010).”
• Weekends and Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “We do this, following Helliwell and Barrington-Leigh (2010), using the Junn (2008) modeling of the Oaxaca (1973), Blinder (1973) decomposition using pooled coefficients.”