Going beyond GDP: An OECD Perspective*

Boarini, Romina; d’Ercole, Marco Mira

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.2013.12007.x

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“…There has been lots of dialectic from economists includes the relationships between happiness and income, or the possibilities of substitutes happiness index for utility [6,7]. It also can be seen that economists have tried to consider happiness as a new component of the measurement of economic growth, those researchers make efforts to let happiness-related indexes and GDP measurement complement and supplement each other, and aim to develop the index that can be compared transnationally and traced in the long term [8,9].…”

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Measuring Happiness of Taiwan - Apply the Innovative Techinque

Chen¹,

Chiou²

2019

Proceedings of the 12th Economics &Amp; Finance Conference, Dubrovnik

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To measure the state of happiness is never a simple task to accomplish, especially its unclear concepts which include subjective and objective indicators simultaneously. From now on, many happiness-relative indexes were generated to evaluate the citizens' well-being of the countries as a practical policy tool all over the world. In Taiwan, the Better Life Index (BLI) from the OECD is applied by the government to calculate citizens' state of well-being, to solve the issues that a huge structure may lead to, this research used DEMATEL-ANP (DANP) as the methodology to analyze the existing relations between the indicators and discover the crucial ones from the viewpoints of the experts. The result shows that personal earnings and education are two very important criteria to the state of happiness in Taiwan.

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Measuring Happiness of Taiwan - Apply the Innovative Techinque

Chen¹,

Chiou²

2019

Proceedings of the 12th Economics &Amp; Finance Conference, Dubrovnik

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“…They also constitute an influential contribution to the on‐going scientific debate on welfare measurement (e.g. Boarini and D’Ercole (), Delhey and Kroll (), Mizobuchi (), Durand (), Decancq (), Marković et al . () and Balestra et al .…”

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“…They also constitute an influential contribution to the on-going scientific debate on welfare measurement (e.g. Boarini and D'Ercole (2013), Delhey and Kroll (2013), Mizobuchi (2014), Durand (2015), Decancq (2017), Marković et al (2016) and Balestra et al (2018)). In addition, the Austrian Government employed a domestic version of the BLI to assess its citizens' policy priorities (Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, 2012).…”

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Embedding as a Pitfall for Survey-Based Welfare Indicators: Evidence from an Experiment

Hetschko

Reumont

Schöb

2018

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a variety of quality of life indicators according to their individual preferences. 11 broad dimensions aggregate these indicators. Our experiment shows that people do not provide consistent ratings across differently labelled dimensions that embed the same indicators. They also do not adjust the rating of equally named dimensions changing sets of indicators. These results show that survey-based measures might suffer from strong embedding effects and, as a result, may fail to measure citizens' true preferences for the indicators. Terms of use: Documents inJEL Classification Codes: B41, C43, C83, I31

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“…for this reason, the indicators are often normalised or standardised (e.g. Morris, 1980;UnDP, 2010;Boarini and Mira d'Ercole, 2013;nardo et al, 2005). However, a normalisation procedure does not fully resolve the aggregation and weighting issue.…”

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“…Boarini et al, 2012), but the indicators gathered by these surveys do not match the (country-level) data in the present volume. Surveys among experts or the public can also provide information on the relative importance of indicators of well-being (Boarini and Mira d'Ercole, 2013).…”

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How Was Life?

Baten

Blum²

2014

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Going beyond GDP: An OECD Perspective*

Cited by 51 publications

References 32 publications

Measuring Happiness of Taiwan - Apply the Innovative Techinque

Measuring Happiness of Taiwan - Apply the Innovative Techinque

Embedding as a Pitfall for Survey-Based Welfare Indicators: Evidence from an Experiment

How Was Life?

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