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

Jan Delhey; Ulrich Kohler

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.02.006

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

Soc Sci Res. 2012 May;41(3):731-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.02.006.

Authors

Jan Delhey¹, Ulrich Kohler

Affiliation

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

PMID: 23017805
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.02.006

Abstract

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.