Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted?

被引：28

作者：

Ravallion, Martin ^{[1
,2
]}

Himelein, Kristen ^{[3
]}

Beegle, Kathleen ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC 20057 USA

[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[3] World Bank, Washington, DC USA

来源：

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CHANGE | 2016年 / 64卷 / 04期

关键词：

INCOME; POVERTY; HAPPINESS; SATISFACTION; POOR; BIAS;

D O I：

10.1086/686793

中图分类号：

K9 [地理];

学科分类号：

0705 ;

摘要：

Widely used measures of subjective welfare ask survey respondents to rate their economic welfare, satisfaction with life, or happiness on an ordinal scale. These measures have found innumerable applications in the psychological and social sciences and have recently become popular in economics. Two important applications of subjective welfare data illustrate why this matters. The first is their application in the interpersonal comparisons of welfare required for poverty measurement.

引用

页码：697 / 726

页数：30

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