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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bernard van Praag (, University of Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute and SCHOLAR) , Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell (, University of Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute and AIAS)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.702kg ISBN: 9780198286547ISBN 10: 0198286546 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 06 April 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Replaced By: 9780199226146 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The analysis of income satisfaction with an application to family equivalence scales 3: Domain satisfactions 4: The aggregation of satisfactions: General satisfaction as an aggregate 5: Political satisfaction 6: Males, females, and households 7: The impact on past and future on present satisfaction 8: The influence of the reference group on norms 9: Health and subjective well-being 10: The effects of climate on welfare and well-being: External effects 11: How to find compensations for aircraft noise nuisance 12: Taxation and well-being 13: Subjective income inequalities 14: A generalized approach to subjective inequalities 15: Poverty 16: Epilogue ReferencesReviewsUnlike other books that were published on this same topic before it, Hapiness Quantified is jam-packed with statistical theories, econometric models, policy applications, and not to mention a whole lot of numbers. Journal of Economic Literature The book constitutes an important contribution to the economics of happiness, in particular because of its rigorous econometric techniques. Its approach will be appealing for economists and for all those social scientists interested in quantitative analysis. Journal of Happiness Studies This book is timely, coming in themiddle of anupsurge of interest in happiness, satisfaction, and other measures of utility-related concepts. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization It is written as a technical text, but for the interested reader with training in economics it is accessible, indeed highly readable... highly original... Welfare economics clearly has been substantially enriched by Van Praags and his colleagues' work. Journal of Economics Happiness Quantified does what it promises: Provides excellent quantitative analysis on happiness research, and thus provides an important contribution to the literature. The Journal of Economic Inequality Simultaneously an authoritative and readable introduction to happiness economics for the novice and a treasure trove for all scholars in this field...refreshing Economica Author Information"B. M. S. van Praag studied econometrics at the University of Amsterdam where he defended his dissertation on ""Individual Welfare and the Theory of Consumer Behaviour"" cum laude in 1968. Between 1969 and 1992 he held consecutive positions as Professor at the Free University of Brussels, Associate Professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Professor of Economics at the University of Leiden, and Professor at Erasmus University. In 1992 he was appointed Professor in Applied Economic Research at the University of Amsterdam and Managing Director of the Foundation for Economic Research. In 2000 he became University Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He was the founding president of the European Society for Population Economics, and has been co-editor of the Journal of Population Economics, a member of the Dutch Social Economic Council, and a member of the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell graduated in Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1994. In 1997 she received a Fulbright scholarship to do graduate studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) (Troy, NY, USA), where she obtained an M.S. in Economics. In 1999 she joined the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, where in 2003 she obtained her PhD on applied welfare economics supervised by B.M.S. van Praag. In the same year, she obtained a second PhD on ecological economics from RPI. She currently works for the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies at the University of Amsterdam." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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