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Camfield, Laura 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-9857 and Esposito, Lucio
(2014)
A cross-country analysis of perceived economic status and life satisfaction in high- and low-income countries.
World Development, 59.
pp. 212-223.
ISSN 0305-750X
Abstract
What are the challenges posed by the analysis of self-reported life satisfaction and material wellbeing/hardship? We explore the complex relationship between objective and subjective indicators using primary data from two diverse sources—a questionnaire survey of 3883 undergraduate students in eight economically developed and developing countries and interviews with 310 adults in the Dominican Republic. Our findings underline the value of subjective data; at the same time, they stress the importance for development researchers of gaining a deeper understanding of what subjective data really tell us, alongside the need for a richer conceptualization of individual emotions and states of mind.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2014 15:16 |
| Last Modified: | 03 May 2024 00:25 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48386 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.018 |
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