Edsel Beja
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4812988 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edsel Beja |
| NOMBRES | Edsel |
| APELLIDO | Beja |
| FIRMA | BEJA E |
| AFILIACIONES | Ateneo de Manila University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Migrant-family background and subjective well-being
The paper examines the subjective well-being of individuals with migrant-family background and individuals with no migrant-family background. The subjective well-being of the former group is on average lowerthan thelatter group. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositionfinds that thegap in their subjective well-being is not explainedby differences in socioeconomic profile and socialcontext.Rather thegap ismainly due tothe unexplained componentof theanalysis, …
Political dynasties and poverty
Political dynasty refers to a situation in which an incumbent official has at least one relative in elected office in the past or the present government. In the Philippines, for example, political dynasties comprise over 70% of its Congress. The impact of political dynasties on socioeconomic outcomes such as poverty is an important empirical question (do political dynasties exacerbate poverty?), and this paper presents some evidence. The analysis…
Empirics on the Long Run Relationship Between Economic Growth and Happiness
The paper finds a statistically significant positive but very small long-run relationship between economic growth and happiness. Reading the evidence as such can mean a rejection of the Easterlin Paradox. The trivial size of the estimated relationship nonetheless indicates little economic significance, if at all. The paper, in turn, argues that using economic significance rather than statistical significance in the evaluation of the evidence can …
The Focusing Illusion and Happiness
Yet, Two More Revisions to the Human Development Index
The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) was adopted in the 20th anniversary edition of the Human Development Reports, in 2010. In using a penalty set-up for the calculations of the IHDI, however, the results overestimated the adjustments. This article suggests a revision to the procedure in order to harmonize the calculations with the underlying attainment set-up of the Human Development Index and minimize the bias in the adjustmen…
Political Dynasties and Poverty
Counting Happiness from the Individual Level to the Group Level
Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development
An Empirical Analysis of Political Dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Inequality in democracy
This article presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70% of jurisdiction-based legislators in the current Congress. They possess higher net worth and win elections by larger margins of victory compared to those not belonging to political dyna…
Subjective Well-Being Approach to Environmental Valuation
Inequality in democracy
This article presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70% of jurisdiction-based legislators in the current Congress. They possess higher net worth and win elections by larger margins of victory compared to those not belonging to political dyna…
Political dynasties and poverty
Political dynasty refers to a situation in which an incumbent official has at least one relative in elected office in the past or the present government. In the Philippines, for example, political dynasties comprise over 70% of its Congress. The impact of political dynasties on socioeconomic outcomes such as poverty is an important empirical question (do political dynasties exacerbate poverty?), and this paper presents some evidence. The analysis…
Political Dynasties and Poverty
Subjective Well-Being Approach to Environmental Valuation
Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development
An Empirical Analysis of Political Dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Counting Happiness from the Individual Level to the Group Level
An Empirical Analysis of Political Dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Inequality in democracy
This article presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70% of jurisdiction-based legislators in the current Congress. They possess higher net worth and win elections by larger margins of victory compared to those not belonging to political dyna…
Subjective Well-Being Approach to Environmental Valuation
Yet, Two More Revisions to the Human Development Index
The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) was adopted in the 20th anniversary edition of the Human Development Reports, in 2010. In using a penalty set-up for the calculations of the IHDI, however, the results overestimated the adjustments. This article suggests a revision to the procedure in order to harmonize the calculations with the underlying attainment set-up of the Human Development Index and minimize the bias in the adjustmen…
Political Dynasties and Poverty
Counting Happiness from the Individual Level to the Group Level
Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development
Empirics on the Long Run Relationship Between Economic Growth and Happiness
The paper finds a statistically significant positive but very small long-run relationship between economic growth and happiness. Reading the evidence as such can mean a rejection of the Easterlin Paradox. The trivial size of the estimated relationship nonetheless indicates little economic significance, if at all. The paper, in turn, argues that using economic significance rather than statistical significance in the evaluation of the evidence can …
The Focusing Illusion and Happiness
Political dynasties and poverty
Political dynasty refers to a situation in which an incumbent official has at least one relative in elected office in the past or the present government. In the Philippines, for example, political dynasties comprise over 70% of its Congress. The impact of political dynasties on socioeconomic outcomes such as poverty is an important empirical question (do political dynasties exacerbate poverty?), and this paper presents some evidence. The analysis…
Migrant-family background and subjective well-being
The paper examines the subjective well-being of individuals with migrant-family background and individuals with no migrant-family background. The subjective well-being of the former group is on average lowerthan thelatter group. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositionfinds that thegap in their subjective well-being is not explainedby differences in socioeconomic profile and socialcontext.Rather thegap ismainly due tothe unexplained componentof theanalysis, …
Economics (7 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Development economics (4 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras) · Happiness (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Philippine History and Culture (4 obras)