Measuring welfare: Latent variable models for happiness and capabilities in the presence of unobservable heterogeneity

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 205-215

  Anand, Paul ^a   Krishnakumar, Jaya ^b   Tran, Ngoc Bich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Freedoms; GLLAMM; Happiness; Instrumental variables; Multi dimensionality; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952038556     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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