The Metrics of Subjective Wellbeing: Cardinality, Neutrality and Additivity*

Kristoffersen, Ingebjørg

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2009.00598.x

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“…While methods of analysing such responses are well developed (Hosmer, Lemeshow 2000, McKelvey, Zovoina 1975 it is now common for quantitative analysis of related wellbeing questions to assume a cardinal level of measurement (Ferrer-i Carbonell, Frijters 2004). The estimated coefficients are much easier to interpret and accord very closely with the relative magnitudes estimated by the ordinal logit model (Kristoffersen 2010) 18 .…”

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Pride and the city

Morrison¹

2016

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Abstract. Urban pride is an individual and collective response to living in a given city. Unlike other emotions such as life satisfaction or happiness with which it is weakly positively correlated, pride involves stake holding; to be proud of something requires having an investment in its success emotionally, financially or culturally.For this study I specify a multilevel model based on responses to a five category survey question which asks residents how proud they are in the 'look and feel of their city'. Responses to the 2008 survey are distributed over almost 6000 residents across 12 cities in New Zealand. Although the primary variation is among individuals, urban pride also varies by city and I show how differences in urban context affect the way different types of stake holding temper urban pride.JEL classification: R19, R590, I390, H890

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Morrison¹

2016

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“…Depending on the field of specialization, different estimation methods have been employed in the literature investigating the determinants of happiness (Kristoffersen, 2010;Ferrer-i-Carbonell & Frijters, 2004). Generally, psychologists and sociologists prefer to employ Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regressions, treating happiness as a cardinal variable.…”

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Subjective Well-Being and Academic Success of First Year University Students: A Seemingly Unrelated Bivariate Probit Analysis

Tuna¹,

Yıldırım²,

Çakmak³

2017

Ekonomik Yaklasim

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“…We chose human well-being as the framework because it comprises basic human needs, economic needs, environmental needs, and subjective happiness (Costanza et al 2007, Summers et al 2012) and is therefore well suited for understanding how broad land-use changes, such as clearing for intensive agriculture or increasing nature reserves, might result in changes across these components. Furthermore, there is a substantive body of literature on subjective well-being and overall life satisfaction as an alternative way of looking at the "value" of the environment (Kristoffersen 2010) and there is widespread consensus that selfreported measures of life satisfaction are valid, replicable, and reliable (Diener 2009). Furthermore, we also wanted to identify priority areas for policy makers.…”

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Navigating trade-offs in land-use planning: integrating human well-being into objective setting

Adams¹,

Pressey²,

Stoeckl³

2014

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ABSTRACT. There is an increasing demand for development of natural resources, which can be accompanied by environmental degradation. Planning for multiple land uses requires navigating trade-offs between social, economic, and environmental outcomes arising from different possible futures. To explore these trade-offs, we use the Daly River catchment, in Australia's Northern Territory, as a case study. The catchment contains areas of priority for both conservation and development. In response to the challenge of navigating the required trade-offs, the Daly River Management Advisory Committee (DRMAC) initiated a land-use plan for the region. Both development and conservation of natural resources in the catchment will affect human well-being and the long-term provisioning of ecosystem services in diverse ways. To understand some of these impacts, an innovative engagement process was designed to elicit the relative importance of key factors to residents' well-being. The process identified 19 well-being factors grouped into four domains: biodiversity, socio-cultural, recreational, and commercial. Overall, the highest-ranked well-being factors were in the social-cultural and biodiversity domains while commercial values were ranked the least important. Respondents reported low satisfaction with commercial factors as well, noting concerns over environmental impacts from existing developments and sustainability of future developments. We identified differences in the reported importance values for several types of stakeholders, most notably between indigenous respondents and those employed in the agricultural sectors. Indigenous respondents placed greater importance on biodiversity and socio-cultural factors. Agricultural respondents placed greater importance on commercial factors. The outcomes of our engagement were integrated into DRMAC's process of objective-setting to ensure that objectives for each domain were included in land-use planning. Our results can also anticipate potential conflicts between different stakeholders and changes in well-being associated with different land uses. We describe how our findings will inform the next stages of stakeholder engagement and comment on the utility of such an approach for integrating well-being into objective setting for land-use and scenario planning.

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The Metrics of Subjective Wellbeing: Cardinality, Neutrality and Additivity*

Cited by 60 publications

References 82 publications

Pride and the city

Pride and the city

Subjective Well-Being and Academic Success of First Year University Students: A Seemingly Unrelated Bivariate Probit Analysis

Navigating trade-offs in land-use planning: integrating human well-being into objective setting

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