A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report
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- Francesco Sarracino & Kelsey J. OConnor, 2022. "A Measure of Well-being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, vol. 43, pages 10-40, Fall.
- Sarracino, Francesco & O'Connor, Kelsey J., 2022. "A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1061, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
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Keywords
efficiency; World Happiness Report; subjective well-being; Data Envelopment Analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2022-12-12 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HAP-2022-12-12 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HEA-2022-12-12 (Health Economics)
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