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Measuring the subjective well-being of nations : national accounts of time use and well-being / edited by Alan B. Krueger.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
- A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness--Congresses.
- Happiness.
- Well-being--Congresses.
- Well-being.
- Life--Congresses.
- Life.
- National characteristics--Congresses.
- National characteristics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Surely everyone wants to know the source of happiness, and indeed, economists and social scientists are increasingly interested in the study and effects of subjective well-being. Putting forward a rigorous method and new data for measuring, comparing, and analyzing the relationship between well-being and the way people spend their time-across countries, demographic groups, and history-this book will help set the agenda of research and policy for decades to come. It does so by introducing a system of National Time Accounting (NTA), which relies on individuals' ow
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction and Overview
- 1. National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life
- 2. That Which Makes Life Worthwhile
- 3. Measuring National Well- Being
- 4. National Time Accounting and National Economic Accounting
- 5. Measuring Real Income with Leisure and Household Production
- 6. Well-Being Measurement and Public Policy
- 7. International Evidence on Well- Being
- 8. Thoughts on "National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life"
- 9. Rejoinder
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Papers originally presented at a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 7-8, 2008.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612426650
- 9781282426658
- 1282426656
- 9780226454573
- 0226454576
- OCLC:
- 475003206
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