Deprivation; Insecurity; Status; Signal; Life Satisfaction; Poverty
Abstract :
[en] Traditional economic modeling has neglected the basic fact that individual well-being depends on one’s own life course and on comparisons with others. These assumptions have been challenged by an increasing number of contributions in the income-distribution literature on the measurement of individual well-being. These have proposed various indices which allow different aspects of past experiences to be brought into the analysis of the phenomenon under consideration. This chapter is a review of these measures with the aim of offering some guidance to the recent developments of the parallel literature on happiness.
Disciplines :
Social economics
Author, co-author :
D'Ambrosio, Conchita ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
An Overview of Intertemporal Measures of Individual Well-Being: Can They Explain Life Satisfaction Better?
Publication date :
2016
Main work title :
Advances in Happiness Research: A Comparative Perspective
