Browsing by Author "Kingdon, Geeta"

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    Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
    (2005-07) Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John
    Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster – enters the household’s utility function positively but that income of more distant others (others in the district or province) enters negatively.
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    Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty?
    (2005-07) Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John
    The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty in poor countries is to use measures of income or consumption. This paper asks: to what extent are these different concepts measurable, to what extent are they competing and to what extent complementary, and is it possible for them to be accommodated within an encompassing framework?