Principles of Questionnaire Construction
... -Both scales and indexes are typically ordinal measures of variables. - Scales and indexes are composite measures of variables, which means that measurement is based on more than one data item or indicator. - The major distinction between indexes and scales is the manner in which scores are assigned ...
... -Both scales and indexes are typically ordinal measures of variables. - Scales and indexes are composite measures of variables, which means that measurement is based on more than one data item or indicator. - The major distinction between indexes and scales is the manner in which scores are assigned ...
Economics and Happiness Research: Insights
... Researchers then compare the responses to these questions, to some economic outcome in the hope of determining what factors influence the overall level of happiness and satisfaction. For instance, one outcome of this comparison has been the “progress paradox” which is that the overall standard of li ...
... Researchers then compare the responses to these questions, to some economic outcome in the hope of determining what factors influence the overall level of happiness and satisfaction. For instance, one outcome of this comparison has been the “progress paradox” which is that the overall standard of li ...
Contents and Measures of Sustainable Progress: the
... early Seventies, however, limits to growth have been perceived with increasing clarity and the not-so-latent conflict between the reasons of economic development and those of protection of the planet’s equilibrium has been highlighted. A long period of multi-stakeholder elaboration of these issues, ...
... early Seventies, however, limits to growth have been perceived with increasing clarity and the not-so-latent conflict between the reasons of economic development and those of protection of the planet’s equilibrium has been highlighted. A long period of multi-stakeholder elaboration of these issues, ...
gross domestic product (gdp) and gross national product (gnp)
... As we have seen, GDP contains information about the scale and composition of a country’s production, the income it generates (what is called the national or domestic income), the size and make-up of what its population spends (in other words, an approximate measure of the standard of living of its p ...
... As we have seen, GDP contains information about the scale and composition of a country’s production, the income it generates (what is called the national or domestic income), the size and make-up of what its population spends (in other words, an approximate measure of the standard of living of its p ...
PPSI 2002 Short Research Summaries
... dilemmas vary systematically in the extent to which they engage emotional vs. reasoning processes in the brain and that these variations in neural activity influence people's moral judgments. Lene Arnett Jensen Summary: A Cultural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology The aim of my presentation ...
... dilemmas vary systematically in the extent to which they engage emotional vs. reasoning processes in the brain and that these variations in neural activity influence people's moral judgments. Lene Arnett Jensen Summary: A Cultural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology The aim of my presentation ...
Theoretical foundation of Educational Administration and Policy
... attempt to vindicate what should be the preferable, desirable, morally right and/or political legitimate “choices” that a society should choose in a particular public-policy domain. 2. Levels of evaluation: The substantive contents of social choice, especially choice among different value stances i. ...
... attempt to vindicate what should be the preferable, desirable, morally right and/or political legitimate “choices” that a society should choose in a particular public-policy domain. 2. Levels of evaluation: The substantive contents of social choice, especially choice among different value stances i. ...
concept of economic development and its measurement
... Economic planners and forecasters have used the GDP per capita as it signifies economic welfare. It helps in developing policies and plans for development because GDP per capita shows whether an economy is improving or not in a more comprehensive manner. It is a convenient benchmark for policy maker ...
... Economic planners and forecasters have used the GDP per capita as it signifies economic welfare. It helps in developing policies and plans for development because GDP per capita shows whether an economy is improving or not in a more comprehensive manner. It is a convenient benchmark for policy maker ...
The Standard of Living - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
... value, if happiness is seen in a plural form). The interesting question regarding this approach is not the legitimacy of taking happiness to be valuable, which is convincing enough, but its exclusive legitimacy. Consider a very deprived person who is poor, exploited, overworked, and ill, but who has ...
... value, if happiness is seen in a plural form). The interesting question regarding this approach is not the legitimacy of taking happiness to be valuable, which is convincing enough, but its exclusive legitimacy. Consider a very deprived person who is poor, exploited, overworked, and ill, but who has ...
The Psychology of the Person
... outside our control? This is an issue that has spilled from philosophy. Radical behaviorism, as represented by Skinner, argued that our behavior is not freely chosen, but rather the result of environmental stimuli to which we are exposed. Psychoanalysis also stresses innate needs and unconscious mec ...
... outside our control? This is an issue that has spilled from philosophy. Radical behaviorism, as represented by Skinner, argued that our behavior is not freely chosen, but rather the result of environmental stimuli to which we are exposed. Psychoanalysis also stresses innate needs and unconscious mec ...
STATISTICS BRIEF Alternative Measures of Well-being
... 2003 Handbook of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA). However, such satellite accounts are not widely used in OECD countries. ...
... 2003 Handbook of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA). However, such satellite accounts are not widely used in OECD countries. ...
Froh, J. and Parks, A. (2012). Activities for Teaching
... Summer is over, the new school year is underway and I am sure you are thinking of ways to make your classes more meaningful and enjoyable for your students. With the focus on standards and testing, it is more important than ever that we help our students develop essential habits and competencies to ...
... Summer is over, the new school year is underway and I am sure you are thinking of ways to make your classes more meaningful and enjoyable for your students. With the focus on standards and testing, it is more important than ever that we help our students develop essential habits and competencies to ...
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... At an initial point, the decisionmaker assigns each equal probability. She then learns and, if “bad” news, can mitigate the bad effects (at some cost to the current generation). If “good,” the well-being of the two generations is (200, 300). With “bad” and no mitigation it’s (200, 100); with “bad” a ...
... At an initial point, the decisionmaker assigns each equal probability. She then learns and, if “bad” news, can mitigate the bad effects (at some cost to the current generation). If “good,” the well-being of the two generations is (200, 300). With “bad” and no mitigation it’s (200, 100); with “bad” a ...
Beyond GDP: Valuing what matters and measuring natural capital
... and analysts, but do not help much when making normative judgements. Presented with 60 indicators, it is hard to make a judgement about whether a society is progressing or not. A dashboard is neither likely to capture as much media and public attention nor inspire politicians as a single indicator l ...
... and analysts, but do not help much when making normative judgements. Presented with 60 indicators, it is hard to make a judgement about whether a society is progressing or not. A dashboard is neither likely to capture as much media and public attention nor inspire politicians as a single indicator l ...
Well-being of Europe and Non-Europe
... in dollars-and-cents terms. But in economics, as in life, money is only a means to other ends. The measure that economists really care about is not money but people’s happiness or welfare».4 However, the situation is quite different from what was described by Krugman: the main goal of economic polic ...
... in dollars-and-cents terms. But in economics, as in life, money is only a means to other ends. The measure that economists really care about is not money but people’s happiness or welfare».4 However, the situation is quite different from what was described by Krugman: the main goal of economic polic ...
Discuss the strength and limitations of income per capita as a
... not be sustainable in the long term. Many of the oil rich nations have seen considerable growth in GDP per capita but this has not translated into the lower income population to benefit from it because large corporations or governments often control natural resources such as oil. Only in countries w ...
... not be sustainable in the long term. Many of the oil rich nations have seen considerable growth in GDP per capita but this has not translated into the lower income population to benefit from it because large corporations or governments often control natural resources such as oil. Only in countries w ...
normative social science
... by the price of this commodity, and yt and Pt replaced by any variables that affect supply but not demand. In the 1970s econometricians began to recognize that how the supply or demand equation is normalized affects the estimator of the supply or demand elasticity (¡M or ¬R ) when the two-stage leas ...
... by the price of this commodity, and yt and Pt replaced by any variables that affect supply but not demand. In the 1970s econometricians began to recognize that how the supply or demand equation is normalized affects the estimator of the supply or demand elasticity (¡M or ¬R ) when the two-stage leas ...
paper 2: beyond gdp
... for environmental accounting is being recognized by the UN; under their aegis, statisticians from around the world are developing a System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) with the hope of standardizing environmental data. In addition, in July 2011 the United Nations’ General ...
... for environmental accounting is being recognized by the UN; under their aegis, statisticians from around the world are developing a System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) with the hope of standardizing environmental data. In addition, in July 2011 the United Nations’ General ...
PAPER 2: BEYOND GDP MEASURING OUR PROGRESS
... for environmental accounting is being recognized by the UN; under their aegis, statisticians from around the world are developing a System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) with the hope of standardizing environmental data. In addition, in July 2011 the United Nations’ General ...
... for environmental accounting is being recognized by the UN; under their aegis, statisticians from around the world are developing a System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA) with the hope of standardizing environmental data. In addition, in July 2011 the United Nations’ General ...
4_CS PS Efficiency
... • The equilibrium price and quantity (P*,Q*) maximize total surplus • Proof by contradiction – If Q < Q*, there is a deadweight loss (DWL) and TS is lower – If Q > Q*, there is a DWL and TS is lower – Must be true that Q* and therefore P* maximize TS • This is Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” at work ...
... • The equilibrium price and quantity (P*,Q*) maximize total surplus • Proof by contradiction – If Q < Q*, there is a deadweight loss (DWL) and TS is lower – If Q > Q*, there is a DWL and TS is lower – Must be true that Q* and therefore P* maximize TS • This is Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” at work ...
Same-Sex Relations, Human Rights, Virtue Ethics and Human Values
... plays in the public realm, in order that laws may be ethically constructed. It is essential, she argues, that we recognize that our own opposition to particular actions (to take Montaigne’s example, eating a human body that is already dead) may not be entirely logical or rational but may in fact spr ...
... plays in the public realm, in order that laws may be ethically constructed. It is essential, she argues, that we recognize that our own opposition to particular actions (to take Montaigne’s example, eating a human body that is already dead) may not be entirely logical or rational but may in fact spr ...
measure the impact of culture on wellbeing
... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” Under the impulse of the French Government ...
... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” Under the impulse of the French Government ...
CAE-reflection-culture-wellbeing-2013
... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” Under the impulse of the French Government ...
... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” Under the impulse of the French Government ...
Draft Conference Paper - Inter
... realization of basic capabilities. The set of basic ‘capabilities’, which signal achievable benchmarks on the basis of which communities and individuals canreflect and pursue the lifechoicesthey have reason to value, include the capabilities of: 1. Life; 2. Bodily Health; 3. Bodily Integrity; 4. Sen ...
... realization of basic capabilities. The set of basic ‘capabilities’, which signal achievable benchmarks on the basis of which communities and individuals canreflect and pursue the lifechoicesthey have reason to value, include the capabilities of: 1. Life; 2. Bodily Health; 3. Bodily Integrity; 4. Sen ...