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Direct linkHawken, Angela; Munck, Gerardo L. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The two cross-national indices with gender-differentiated data introduced by the UNDP in 1995, as well as several other such indices developed subsequently, are an important resource for researchers and policy makers interested in gender disparities. Yet questions remain regarding how these indices should be interpreted and how valid they are.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Validity, Guidelines, Global Approach
Rende, Sevinc; Donduran, Murat – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The Human Development Index (HDI) has been instrumental in broadening the discussion of economic development beyond money-metric progress, in particular, by ranking a country against other countries in terms of the well being of their citizens. We propose self-organizing maps to explore similarities among countries using the components of the HDI…
Descriptors: Well Being, Maps, Economic Development, Global Approach
Beja, Edsel L., Jr. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The subjective well-being approach to the valuation of international development is applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Results indicate that the rich countries have particular preference for education, healthcare, and housing; they are willing to accept compensation for a failure to meet the three targets by 2015. The poor…
Descriptors: Well Being, Economically Disadvantaged, Evidence, Foreign Policy
Taimalu, Merle; Lahikainen, Anja Riitta; Korhonen, Piia; Kraav, Inger – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Our main interest in this paper is in studying children's well-being by using children themselves as informants and fear as an indicator of insecurity from cross-cultural and longitudinal perspectives. More specifically our paper documents the changes in the content and prevalence of children's fears in two neighboring countries, Finland and…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Cross Cultural Studies, Incidence, Social Change
Veenhoven, Ruut; Hagerty, Michael – Social Indicators Research, 2006
The "Easterlin paradox" holds that economic growth does not add to the quality-of-life and that this appears in the fact that average happiness in nations has not risen in the last few decades. The latest trend data show otherwise. Average happiness has increased slightly in rich nations and considerably in the few poor nations for which data are…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Quality of Life, Psychological Patterns, Literary Criticism
