How reliable and consistent are subjective measures of welfare in Europe and Central Asia?

Alexandru Cojocaru and Mame Fatou Diagne

The Economics of Transition, 2015, vol. 23, issue 1, 75-103

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This paper analyses the reliability and consistency of subjective well-being measures, using the Life in Transition Survey. Drawing on two life satisfaction questions with alternative scales, our results do not reveal substantial biases in accounts of life satisfaction due to framing. Subjective individual assessments of household relative income position, on the other hand, do not appear to be reliable predictors of objective poverty or wealth. We find that subjective relative income position is only weakly correlated with objective welfare measures. There are differences in evaluations of the household's relative standing across different household members, and these differences are correlated with respondent characteristics.

Date: 2015
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