Workshop

Measuring living standards and wellbeing

Organiser

Thomas Crossley

Date & Time

From: 11 March 2011
Until:

Type

Workshop

Venue

The Institute for Fiscal Studies
7 Ridgmount Street,
Fitzrovia,
London,
WC1E 7AE

A cemmap workshop sponsored by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)

This workshop will explore the measurement of living standards and wellbeing, particularly at and individual and household level. Speakers will report new findings on the value of traditional measures such as income and consumption, as well as describing new approaches such as subjective measures of welling being and the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM).

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Michael Daly, Trinity College Dublin
  • Gunther Fink, Harvard
  • Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
  • Cormac O’Dea, IFS
  • Steve Pudney, Essex
  • Arthur van Soest, Tilburg

Please note:We do not have funds to assist with travel for this event. Lunch will be provided.