Well-being in Belgium

Capéau, Bart; Cherchye, Laurens; Decancq, Koen; Decoster, André; Rock, Bram De; Maniquet, François; Nys, Annemie; Périlleux, Guillaume; Ramaekers, Eve; Rongé, Zoé; Schokkaert, Erik; Vermeulen, Frédéric

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9

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“…This analysis will be performed with the use of the so-called MEqIn data. A database that is representative for Belgium in 2016 and that led to the publication of the book by Capéau et al (2020) analyzing the well-being of individuals in Belgium and the different dimensions that compose their well-being. This database is especially suited for the type of analysis performed in this study for several reasons.…”

Section: Database and Sample Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The job characteristics were then grouped in the four dimensions based on whether the job is: challenging, physically demanding, allows for autonomy, asks for intellectual efforts. (See Chapter 9 in Capéau et al (2020) for more information on the answers to the questions related to the job characteristics and the construction of the dimensions).…”

Section: B Second Appendix: Robustness Checksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…if their income level is already too low). More information on WTP and its construction within the MEqIn database can be found in chapter 23 and 24 of Capéau et al (2020).…”

Section: B Second Appendix: Robustness Checksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, this paper will underline the importance of analyzing both the case of men and women, as the results will point to a different behavior of both genders. The analysis will be performed with the help of the MEqIn database, a survey that was conducted in Belgium in 2016 and that led to the publication of the book by Capéau et al (2020) analyzing the well-being of individuals in Belgium and the different dimensions that compose their well-being. While being one of the few databases in which both partners of the selected households were interviewed and with information on time use, subjective well-being as well as household and individual characteristics, it further contains questions drawn from the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) proposed by Gosling et al (2003), allowing one to construct measures of the big five personality traits.…”

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Time Use and Life Satisfaction within Couples: A Gender Analysis for Belgium

De Rock,

Périlleux

2023

Feminist Economics

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This study looks at the time allocations of individuals with a focus on paid and unpaid work, its division within the households, as well as its link with life satisfaction. The analysis is performed for Belgium in 2016 using the MEqIn database, a database containing information on both partners in the household. Time use by men and women appears to be quite different.Men are found to be more active in the paid activities and women in the unpaid ones. The link between time use and life satisfaction appears to be different for each gender as well. As in previous studies, women are found to be happier when working part-time. However, the usual conclusion that they follow traditional gender norm is challenged as it appears that this result remains only when they also undertake the majority of the unpaid work. This supports the idea that women active on the paid labor market suffer from a double burden. We then look at the within household interdependencies in the time allocations and at the link these can have with the subjective well-being of both men and women. Doing so, it appears that men's behavior can be related to the gender-identity hypothesis, and more precisely to its bread-winner version, while women's behavior is closer to a egalitarian vision of the division of work. We further observe that those behaviors are softened by the presence of children.

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Section: Database and Sample Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Second Appendix: Robustness Checksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…if their income level is already too low). More information on WTP and its construction within the MEqIn database can be found in chapter 23 and 24 of Capéau et al (2020).…”

Section: B Second Appendix: Robustness Checksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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De Rock,

Périlleux

2023

Feminist Economics

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“…17 The rest of this appendix is devoted to describing how the three dimensions were measured. More detailed information is available in Chapters 4, 6, and 11 of Capéau et al (2020), respectively.…”

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Cumulative deprivation: identification and aggregation

Decancq¹

2023

Research Handbook on Poverty and Inequality

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This paper discusses the recent literature on the identification and aggregation of cumulative deprivation. Individuals who occupy a low position on all well-being dimensions at the same time, are said to suffer from cumulative deprivation.For these individuals, disadvantages in one dimension are further reinforced by disadvantages in other dimensions. In this paper it is discussed how individuals who suffer from cumulative deprivation can be identified in a multidimensional data set and how aggregate measures of cumulative deprivation can be derived from the so-called cumulative deprivation curve. The core concepts are illustrated using the Belgian MEQIN data set, which has been collected in 2016.

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Eliciting public preferences across health and wellbeing dimensions: An equivalent income value set for SIPHER‐7

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Van Landeghem,

Tsuchiya

2024

Health Economics

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The call for “health and wellbeing in all policies” requires a preference‐based measure that collapses multi‐dimensional health and wellbeing into a single index, such as equivalent income. We aim to elicit preferences of the UK general public to estimate a value set for a suite of seven commonly used wellbeing indicators including health, income, and other dimensions, in terms of equivalent income. Secondly, we examine heterogeneous preferences by gender, by age, and by income. Thirdly, we explore the stability of preferences, since the survey took place amid the pandemic, possibly affecting preferences over health and wellbeing. Effects of attrition and of time are distinguished. Data were collected online across two waves using Discrete Choice Experiments through an internet panel (N1 = 3362; and N2 = 3357). The regression coefficients for all the ordered attribute levels have the expected sign, are significant, and ordered. Equivalent income was found to vary up to 10% by gender and by age (both significant) and 4% by income (not significant), while the effect of time was up to 16% (significant). The study facilitates the calculation of overall wellbeing in terms of equivalent income based on the preferences of the UK public, where the relevant wellbeing indicators are available.

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Well-being in Belgium

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Time Use and Life Satisfaction within Couples: A Gender Analysis for Belgium

Time Use and Life Satisfaction within Couples: A Gender Analysis for Belgium

Cumulative deprivation: identification and aggregation

Eliciting public preferences across health and wellbeing dimensions: An equivalent income value set for SIPHER‐7

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