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International inequality in subjective well-being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from a life satisfaction question included in the Gallup World Poll in almost all countries in the world. We argue that inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We find evidence that inequality in subjective well-being has an inverse-U relationship with per capita GDP, but it is monotonically decreasing with respect to mean subjective well-being. We argue that this difference might be associated to inequality aversion in the space of utility.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 216
Classification
Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Distribution: Other
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
General Welfare; Well-Being
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Distribution: Other
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Subject
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gluzmann, Pablo
Gasparini, Leonardo C.
Gasparini, Leonardo C.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
(where)
La Plata
(when)
2017
- Handle
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20.09.2024, 8:23 AM CEST
Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Gluzmann, Pablo
- Gasparini, Leonardo C.
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Time of origin
- 2017
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