International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll

Autores
Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo; Gasparini, Leonardo
Año de publicación
2017
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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.
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Ciencias Económicas
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
title International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
spellingShingle 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
title_short International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
title_full International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
title_fullStr International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
title_full_unstemmed International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
title_sort International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo
Gasparini, Leonardo
author Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo
author_facet Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo
Gasparini, Leonardo
author_role author
author2 Gasparini, Leonardo
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
topic Ciencias Económicas
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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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