@conference {1937,
	title = {Subjective wellbeing in Colombia},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {A burgeoning literature explores the extent to which consumption or income inadequately reflect people{\textquoteright}s subjective wellbeing, just as GDP at times can provide an incomplete and misleading picture of national wellbeing. The paper builds on the present research but it analyzes a much broader, more interdisciplinary, and more policy-relevant range of potential determinants simultaneously than currently existing in the literature on subjective wellbeing. It assesses the marginal effects of a number of factors on perceived changes in levels of subjective wellbeing over time for the same respondents in Colombia from 2008/09 to 2010/11. Findings show that increasing the quality of life of Colombians is largely conditional on minimizing risks and vulnerabilities: reducing the rate and duration of unemployment; improving the delivery of public health services; increasing the share of people with health and pension plans; and reducing levels of discrimination. Policy aimed at improving people{\textquoteright}s subjective wellbeing will likely have the greatest impact if focused on mitigating vulnerabilities and negative shocks that people face.},
	author = {Alexander Krauss}
}
