Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being

Edited by Conchita D’Ambrosio, Université du Luxembourg

This volume contains an excellent collection of chapters by outstanding economists on the subject of social and economic well-being. Among the authors are Lars Osberg, Carlos Gradin, Olga Canto, and Jacques Silber, with a first-rate overview provided by Conchita D'Ambrosio. The chapters are paired, with a theoretical analysis followed by an empirical implementation. Topics include well-being measures going beyond GDP, human development and poverty, multidimensional poverty and material deprivation, social exclusion, economic insecurity, relative deprivation and satisfaction, social inequality, social polarization, and segregation.'--Edward N. Wolff, New York University, US'This Handbook updates and modernizes decades of scholarship on macro-level markers of progress and micro-level measures of well-being. Its main contribution is its insistence on integrating non-traditional frameworks into conventional approaches to defining, measuring, and tracking socio-economic outcomes at multiple levels. This sophisticated collection spans a remarkable array of outcomes, dimensions, and indicators, including poverty, deprivation, development, exclusion, polarization, segregation, diversity, vulnerability, insecurity, and satisfaction. D'Ambrosio's ambitious decision to pair theoretical and empirical analyses of each topic pays off beautifully.'--Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York, Graduate Center, US

• Contents: Introduction by Conchita D’Ambrosio1. Going Beyond GDP: Theoretical Approaches Enrico Giovannini and Tommaso Rondinella2. Going Beyond GDP: Empirical FindingsCarlotta Balestra, Romina Boarini and Nicolas Ruiz 3. Human Development and Poverty: Theoretical Approaches Suman Seth and Antonio Villar4. Human Development and Poverty: Empirical Findings Suman Seth and Antonio Villar5. Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation: Theoretical Approaches Satya R. Chakravarty and Nachiketa Chattopadhyay6. Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation: Empirical Findings Anne-Catherine Guio 7. Social Exclusion: Theoretical ApproachesLuna Bellani and Alessio Fusco8. Social Exclusion: Empirical FindingsBea Cantillon, András Gábos, Tim Goedemé and István György Tóth9. Poverty Over Time: Theoretical Approaches Michael Hoy and Buhong Zheng 10. Poverty Over Time: Empirical Findings Carlos Gradin, Olga Cantó and Coral del Rio11. Vulnerability to Poverty: Theoretical ApproachesCesar Calvo12. Vulnerability to Poverty: Empirical FindingsLidia Ceriani 13. Economic Insecurity: Theoretical Approaches Nicholas Rohde and Kam Ki Tang14. Economic Insecurity: Empirical FindingsLars Osberg 15. Relative Deprivation and Satisfaction: Theoretical ApproachesLucio Esposito 16. Relative Deprivation and Satisfaction: Empirical FindingsPaolo Verme 17. Social Inequality: Theoretical Approaches Casilda Lasso de la Vega 18. Social Inequality: Empirical Findings Indranil Dutta and Gaston Yalonetzky 19. Income and Social Polarization: Theoretical Approaches Iñaki Permanyer20. Income and Social Polarization: Empirical Findings Chiara Gigliarano 21. Segregation: Theoretical Approaches Oscar Volij 22. Segregation: Empirical Findings Ricardo Mora and Jacques Silber 23. Diversity and Social Fractionalization: Theoretical Approaches Mariateresa Ciommi, Ernesto Savaglio and Stefano Vannucci24. Diversity and Social Fractionalization: Empirical Findings Mariateresa Ciommi Index