Gender, subjective well-being and capabilities: an application to the Moroccan youth

El-Mahdi Khouaja (), Noémie Olympio () and Gwendoline Promsopha ()
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El-Mahdi Khouaja: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Noémie Olympio: AMU - Aix Marseille Université, ADEF - Apprentissage, Didactique, Evaluation, Formation - AMU - Aix Marseille Université
Gwendoline Promsopha: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The capabilities framework (Sen, 2001) has been introduced as a criticism of welfarist approaches that use utility, i.e. satisfaction, as the main benchmark for social outcomes. However, research on subjective well-being (SWB), i.e. a subjective assessment of the concept of "utility" or "satisfaction", has seen a swift development in recent years. This literature is sometimes referred to as "happiness economics". Despite this recent popularity, SWB fails to account for situations of adaptive preferences, an issue widely discussed by Sen (1992).

Date: 2018
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Published in Aurora Lopes-Fogues et Firdevs Melis Cin. Youth, Gender and Capabilities : Rethinking Opportunities and Agency from a Human Development Perspective, ROUTLEDGE in association with GSE Research, pp.143-162, 2018, Routledge Explorations in Development Studies, 9781315306353

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