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Heliwell, J. F., Barrington-Leigh, C. (2010). Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being. Canadian Journal of Economics 43 (3), 729-753

Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective measures of well-being. This promising trend represents a shift towards measuring positive outcomes in psychology and greater realism in the study of economic behaviour.We describe the main measures of subjective well-being (SWB) and provide examples of policy-relevant research findings, including new accountings of the differences in individual-level SWB assessments around the world and across Canada. These suggest a consistent pattern of life circumstances linked to SWB and highlight the importance of social factors whose role has otherwise been hard to quantify in income-equivalent terms.

Mesurer et comprendre le bien-ˆetre subjectif . On porte de plus en plus d’attention aux mesures subjectives de bien-ˆetre dans les mondes de l’universit´e, des politiques publiques et de l’opinion g´en´erale. Cette tendance prometteuse tend `a accentuer un d´eplacement vers la mesure de r´esultats positifs en psychologie, et vers un plus grand r´ealisme dans l’´etude du comportement ´economique. On d´ecrit les principales mesures de  bien-ˆetre subjectif (BES), et on donne des exemples de r´esultats de recherche qui ont une importance pour la d´efinition de politiques, y compris de nouvelles comptabilit´es des diff´erences dans les ´evaluations des mesures de BES au plan individuel tant de par le monde qu’`a travers le Canada. Voil`a qui sugg`ere un pattern consistent de niveaux de vie reli´e aux mesures de BES et qui souligne l’importance de facteurs sociaux dont le r ˆ ole est d’autre part difficile `a quantifier en termes d’´equivalence de revenus.

Authors

Helliwell, John F.

John F. Helliwell is Arthur J.E. Child Foundation Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and co-director (with George Akerlof) of CIFAR's program on "Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being". He is also Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British...

Barrington-Leigh, Christopher

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