Beyond GDP and Back: What is the Value-added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

Christoph Schmidt and Sonja C Kassenboehmer
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Sonja Cornelia de New

No 8225, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Building on the Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests to explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective perceptions. To explore the additional information of these indicators, we analyze data on the macro level from the German Federal Statistical Office combined with micro level data from the German SOEP (1991-2008). Much of the variation in many well-being measures can indeed be captured well by GDP and the unemployment rate. These correlations are far from perfect, thus giving considerable hope that there is room for a broader statistical reporting.

Keywords: Beyond gdp; Happiness; Sen; Stiglitz; Sustainability; Welfare measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 E01 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-02
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