International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
- Autores
- Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo; Gasparini, Leonardo
- Año de publicación
- 2017
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- documento de trabajo
- Estado
- versión enviada
- Descripción
- 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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) - Materia
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Ciencias Económicas
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll - Nivel de accesibilidad
- acceso abierto
- Condiciones de uso
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Repositorio
- Institución
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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- oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/65323
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International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll |
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International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo Ciencias Económicas inequality subjective well-being Kuznets curve Gallup World Poll |
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International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll |
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International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll |
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Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo Gasparini, Leonardo |
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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. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) |
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