Exploring factors affecting the level of happiness across countries: A conditional robust nonparametric frontier analysis

Ferrera, José Manuel Cordero; Salinas‐Jiménez, Javier; Salinas-Jiménez, María del Mar

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2016.07.025

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“…Our paper both confirms extant findings from Binder and Broekel (2012a) and Cordero, Salinas-Jiménez, and Salinas-Jiménez (2017) and offers novel insights. We substantively contribute to the emergent scholarship on subjective well-being efficiency by applying the approach by Binder and Broekel (2012a) to a balanced country panel setting.…”

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“…To date, three papers have explored happiness efficiency at either the individual (Binder and Broekel 2012a;Cordero, Salinas-Jiménez, and Salinas-Jiménez 2017) or country level (Debnath and Shankar 2014). First, Broekel (2012a, 2012b) use individual-level panel data from the British Household Panel study and find that 20-27% of the population efficiently reaches its life satisfaction levels.…”

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Sometimes Your Best Just Ain’t Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Subjective Well-being Efficiency

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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness levels. This paper asks an important but understudied question, namely, could countries achieve the same or even higher subjective well-being by using the same resources more efficiently? We provide the first country panel evidence on whether nations efficiently transform their endowments (income, education, and health) into subjective well-being and which factors influence the conversion efficiency. Using data on 91 countries from 2009 to 2014, we find that that well-being efficiency gains are possible worldwide. We show that poor labor market conditions as proxied by unemployment and involuntary part-time employment are associated with lower ‘subjective well-being efficiency,’ while social support, freedom, and the rule of law improve it. These findings are useful to policymakers in helping identify inefficiencies, reducing wasteful resource use, and developing policies that promote sustainable development and human well-being. Our results are robust to a battery of sensitivity checks and raise policy-relevant questions about the appropriate instruments to improve subjective well-being efficiency.

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Sometimes Your Best Just Ain’t Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Subjective Well-being Efficiency

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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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“…That is, the underlying, 'true' effectiveness levels do not depend on values of Z. 10 Previous studies using survey data have shown that respondent characteristics do significantly affect the attainable setor at least the perceived attainable set(Cordero, Salinas-Jiménez, & Salinas-Jiménez, 2017;Verschelde & Rogge, 2012). In addition, other environmental variables can be related to the frontier, such as the location of the evaluated unit(Fusco, Vidoli, & Sahoo, 2017) and its political environment(Kristof De Witte & Geys, 2013).…”

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Measuring and explaining organizational effectiveness of school districts: Evidence from a robust and conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt approach

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Schiltz

2018

European Journal of Operational Research

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“…As a result, the conditional approach has become very popular in the recent literature on efficiency measurement. Hence, studies using this approach to measure efficiency are available in multiple frameworks (Bonaccorsi et al ., ; Cherchye et al ., ; De Witte and Geys, ; Halkos and Tzeremes, ; Haelermans and De Witte, ; Verschelde and Rogge, ; De Witte and Kortelainen, ; Cordero et al ., , ). However, we should note that there is not widely available software to conduct conditional DEA so far.…”

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Monte‐Carlo Comparison of Conditional Nonparametric Methods and Traditional Approaches to Include Exogenous Variables

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Pacific Economic Review

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The aim of this paper is to compare the performance of the conditional nonparametric approach with several traditional nonparametric methods to incorporate the effect of exogenous or environmental variables into the estimation of efficiency measures. To do this, we conduct a Monte Carlo experiment using a translog production function with one output, two discretionary inputs and two exogenous variables to generate simulated data. According to the values of different accuracy measures calculated to evaluate the performance of each method, the conditional data envelopment analysis clearly outperforms all the traditional alternatives.1 There is also another body of literature dealing with those variables in stochastic frontier analysis such as the traditional model developed by Battese and Coelli (1995) or the recent semi-parametric approaches proposed by Kuosmanen (2011, 2012).

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Exploring factors affecting the level of happiness across countries: A conditional robust nonparametric frontier analysis

Cited by 47 publications

References 65 publications

Sometimes Your Best Just Ain’t Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Subjective Well-being Efficiency

Sometimes Your Best Just Ain’t Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Subjective Well-being Efficiency

Measuring and explaining organizational effectiveness of school districts: Evidence from a robust and conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt approach

Monte‐Carlo Comparison of Conditional Nonparametric Methods and Traditional Approaches to Include Exogenous Variables

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