Demography and well-being

• Published in: Vienna yearbook of population research Vol. 19; pp. 23 - 28
• Main Author: Clark, Andrew E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 2021; Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Subjects: DEBATE; Demography; Economics and Finance; Humanities and Social Sciences; Well being; Subjective well-being; Measurement; Policy; Demography

Demography studies the characteristics of populations. One such characteristic is well-being: this was the subject of the 2019Wittgenstein Conference. Here, I discuss how objective well-being domains can be summarised to produce an overall well-being score, and how taking self-reported (subjective)...