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

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo, Gasparini, Leonardo
Formato: Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
Materias:
Ciencias Económicas
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/65323
http://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas216.pdf
Aporte de:
SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata
id I19-R120-10915-65323
record_format dspace
institution Universidad Nacional de La Plata
institution_str I-19
repository_str R-120
collection SEDICI (UNLP)
language Inglés
topic Ciencias Económicas
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo
Gasparini, Leonardo
International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the Gallup World Poll
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
inequality
subjective well-being
Kuznets curve
Gallup World Poll
description 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.
format Articulo
Documento de trabajo
author Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo
Gasparini, Leonardo
author_facet Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo
Gasparini, Leonardo
author_sort Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo
title International Inequality in Subjective Well-Being: An exploration with the 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
publishDate 2017
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/65323
http://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas216.pdf
work_keys_str_mv AT gluzmannpabloalfredo internationalinequalityinsubjectivewellbeinganexplorationwiththegallupworldpoll
AT gasparinileonardo internationalinequalityinsubjectivewellbeinganexplorationwiththegallupworldpoll
bdutipo_str Repositorios
_version_ 1764820480502530049

Ejemplares similares