- Autor
- Wiśniewski Tomasz P. (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
- Tytuł
- Should income be taken for granted as a sole driver of welfare? Bayesian insight on the relevance of non-income drivers of welfare
- Źródło
- International Journal of Management and Economics, 2018, vol. 54, nr 1, s. 58-68, tab., bibliogr. 23 poz.
Zeszyty Naukowe / Szkoła Główna Handlowa. Kolegium Gospodarki Światowej - Słowa kluczowe
- Dobrobyt, Prawdopodobieństwo, Pomiary
Prosperity, Probability, Measurement - Uwagi
- Klasyfikacja JEL: I31, C11
summ. - Abstrakt
- The paper consists of a discussion on the relevance of non-income drivers of welfare. This discussion is based on a subjective Bayesian reasoning, where welfare perceptions are subjectively rational decisions of individuals, who are, as author suggests, the ultimate decision-makers in respect of what welfare actually means for them. The objective of the paper is to investigate if income should be taken for granted as a sole driver of welfare. The conclusion is drawn from a methodological investigation of this question in a Bayesian concept of probability with a consideration for correlations among income and non-income drivers of welfare. It suggests that income should not be taken for granted as a sole driver of welfare since the non-income factors, which are not correlated with income, appear to be relevantly affecting individuals' perceptions of welfare with Bayesian probability of almost 65%. Thereby, the paper is a reaffirmation of a need for further research in the area of welfare measures that might constitute an alternative to income-dominated indicators. Its value emanates from unambiguous answer in favour of the relevance of non-income drivers across welfare perceptions, which, without Bayesian reasoning, could remain unsolved at the point of 50% odds for relevance (irrelevance).(original abstract)
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- Biblioteka SGH im. Profesora Andrzeja Grodka
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- ISSN
- 2299-9701
- Język
- eng
