RMF2012 Abstracts
Session: Thursday 5th July (09.15 - 12.45)
Title: Happiness, Income and Welfare
Name: Sayantan Ghosal
Affiliation: Research Director of CAGE
Abstract Details
In the face of evidence that individuals may lack coherent and/or stable preferences, is there a case for using happiness data to underpin economic policy? Typically, large scale survey (panel) data on individual's self-reported subjective well-being (SWB) is regressed on a number of independent variables of interest. A number of such studies have provided evidence that well-being self-reports are correlated with objective measures such as health measures. However, the use of such data on its own as a normative underpinning for policy raises a number of concerns that will be addressed in this session.
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Presenter: Sayantan Ghosal
Poverty and Aspirations Failure
Presenter: Peter Hammond
Social Choice and Individual Reports of Subjective Well-Being
Presenter: Eugenio Proto
Life satisfaction, Income and Personality
The level of the session is: Accessible
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Presenter 1
Start time: 09:15
Presentation title: Social choice and individual reports of subjective well-being
Author: Professor Peter Hammond
Affiliation: University of Warwick
Presenter 2
Start time: 10:00
Presentation title: Life satisfaction and income
Author: Dr Eugenio Proto
Affiliation: University of Warwick
Presenter 3
Start time: 11:15
Presentation title: Happiness and welfare with changing preferences
Author: Professor Sayantan Ghosal
Affiliation: University of Warwick