Comments on: Happiness and Gini http://statastic.com/2006/07/12/happiness-and-gini/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:37:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Statastico http://statastic.com/2006/07/12/happiness-and-gini/#comment-8 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:35:24 +0000 http://statastic.com/2006/07/12/happiness-and-gini/#comment-8 The Summer 2006 issues of the Yale Economic Review (http://www.yaleeconomicreview.com/issues/summer2006/gdh.php) has a good overview of a recent paper by OECD titled, "Alternative Measures of Well-Being" by Romina Boarini, Asa Johansson and Marco Mira d’Ercole which can be found here: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/38/36165332.pdf The upside is that GDP per capita is as good an indicator of happiness as other measures such as leisure time, equity, health, and social cohesion. No word on whether they talked to anyone in Vanuatu. The Summer 2006 issues of the Yale Economic Review (http://www.yaleeconomicreview.com/issues/summer2006/gdh.php) has a good overview of a recent paper by OECD titled, “Alternative Measures of Well-Being” by
Romina Boarini, Asa Johansson and Marco Mira d’Ercole which can be found here: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/38/36165332.pdf

The upside is that GDP per capita is as good an indicator of happiness as other measures such as leisure time, equity, health, and social cohesion.

No word on whether they talked to anyone in Vanuatu.

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