Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly recognized as a scalable intervention to alleviate
financial hardship. A large body of evidence evaluates the impact of CTs on subjective well …

Human feelings measured in integers (my happiness is an 8 out of 10, my pain 2 out of 6)
have no objective scientific basis. They are “made-up” numbers on a scale that does not …

Background: A large body of evidence evaluates the impact of cash transfers (CTs) on
physical health and economic indicators in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). A …

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be
reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness …

Abstract According to the Easterlin Paradox, richer people are happier than poorer people,
but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. There is …

Research on subjective wellbeing typically assumes that responses to survey questions are
comparable across respondents and across time. Unfortunately, if this assumption is …

In this study, we analyse the effects of social class on life satisfaction. We develop a
theoretical framework that shows how social class affects life satisfaction through five …

Every politician, in every nation and in every era of history, eventually has to face a complex
and emotive question. Should I try to redistribute money from my richer citizens to my poorer …

A large body of literature documents cross-national variation in the level of inequality of
educational opportunity (IEO) among children from different social backgrounds. By contrast …

Although survey data on happiness are increasingly used in economics and are now an
official part of UK Government data collection, their reliability is a long-standing issue. Two …