Measuring the Quality of Life across Countries

By T. Rahman, R. Mittelhammer, P. Wandschneider. 2005

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Comparing the performance of Chinese banks: A principal component approach ☆ (2007, background): “Its successful application in social science includes the analysis of quality of life and social capital (e.g. Putnam 2000; Slottje 1991).”
The Human Development Index: A History (2007, methodology): “18 Other possible weighting schemes include, according to Slottje (1991), establishing weights by: a social welfare function, a priori assumptions, regression coefficients, principal-components analysis (PCA), and the Borda method.”
The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-Being (2009, unknown): “Examples of this approach are Slottje et al. (1991), Easterlin (2000), Hobijn and Franses (2001), Neumayer (2003) or the World Development Report (2006).”
Improved method to calculate a water poverty index at local scale (2010, unknown): “Instead, Slottje 1991 claimed the need for developing a composite index that balances conceptual clarity combining as much information as possible and methodological simplicity clear understanding of the assumptions that underlie the particular index .”
On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness (2018, background): “As simple as it sounds, the first option is not to distribute any weights to the indicators, otherwise called an ‘attributes-based weighting system’ (see e.g. Slottje 1991, pp. 686–688).”
Quality of Life in the Economic and Urban Economic Literature (2007, background): “Based on Sen's vision, other economists such as Slottje (1991) and Chiapper?”
The Capability Approach: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (2003, methodology): “Slottje (1991) used 20 indicators to compute a well-being index for 126 countries.”
Multidimensional Measures of Well-Being: Standard of Living and Quality of Life Across Countries (2007, methodology): “Slottje (1991) uses 20 indicators to build a composite index of well-being for 126 countries.”
Pattern of Regional Disparities in Socio-economic Development in India: District Level Analysis (2012, unknown): “However, it is generally believed that socio-economic development should be measured on the basis of a large number of attributes as is relevant and feasible (see e.g., Slottje 1991; Hirschberg et al. 1991; Sen 1985,1987; Maasoumi 1986; Atkinson and Bourguignon 1982; Kolm 1977).”