Acknowledgements We are grateful to Andrew Norton for supplying us with happiness data for Australia in several recent
In “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.378.8175 2023-05-15T16:49:46+02:00 Acknowledgements We are grateful to Andrew Norton for supplying us with happiness data for Australia in several recent Andrew Leigh Justin Wolfers The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.378.8175 http://people.anu.edu.au/andrew.leigh/pdf/CommentBlanchflowerOswald_DP.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.378.8175 http://people.anu.edu.au/andrew.leigh/pdf/CommentBlanchflowerOswald_DP.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://people.anu.edu.au/andrew.leigh/pdf/CommentBlanchflowerOswald_DP.pdf happiness life satisfaction Human Development Index income Australia JEL Classifications I31 O57 text ftciteseerx 2016-09-18T00:14:36Z In “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score would predict. This conclusion also holds when we turn to a larger cross-national dataset than the one used by Blanchflower and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita in place of the HDI. Indeed, in the World Values Survey, only one other country (Iceland) has a significantly higher level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous crossnational surveys conducted since the 1940s, which have consistently found that Australians report high levels of wellbeing. Text Iceland Unknown |
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