Happiness inequality: Adding meaning to numbers - A reply to Veenhoven and Kalmijn.

Soc Sci Res

Jacobs University Bremen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Campus Ring 1, D-28759 Bremen, Germany.

Published: May 2012

In SSR 40 (3), we proposed two new measures for happiness inequality, which have spurred a debate. With this rebuttal we disprove the arguments of our critics and demonstrate that our recommended measure, the percent-maximum standard deviation, is a valuable tool for cross-national comparative research.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.02.006DOI Listing

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