Demography and Well-being

Andrew Clark

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Abstract: Demography studies the characteristics of populations. One such characteristic is well-being: this was the subject of the 2019 Wittgenstein Conference. Here, I discuss how objective well-being domains can be summarised to produce an overall well-being score, and how taking self-reported (subjective) well-being into account may help in this effort. But given that there is more than one type of subjective well-being score, we would want to know which one is "best". We would also need to decide whose well-being counts, or counts more than that of others. Finally, I briefly mention the potential role of adaptation and social comparisons in the calculation of societal well-being.

Keywords: Subjective well-being; Demography; Measurement; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2021, 19, pp.1-6. ⟨10.1553/populationyearbook2021.deb02⟩

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DOI: 10.1553/populationyearbook2021.deb02

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