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Most books on happiness are concerned with answering, in their
diverse ways, a basic question: how should I live? Such books
assume, however, that the path to happiness lies entirely within
one’s control. Happiness is simply a matter of doing certain
things and refraining from doing certain other things. This book,
however, takes a different view. It is that happiness is not always
within our control but, instead, prey to the attitudes and actions
of others. Following Jean-Paul Sartre’s aphorism, “hell is
other people”, the broad theme of this book is that
“unhappiness is other people”. In the language of economics,
“other” people, through their attitudes and actions, create
externalities – often negative - which serve to make “us”
unhappy. The instruments for creating such externalities are
intolerance and feelings of envy/superiority. This book expands on
this theme in respect of three areas: religion, money, and
prejudice. It is fair to say the existing (un)happiness literature,
particularly in economics, does not take many of these
externalities into account. Instead, the focus is, firstly, on
identifying the factors, internal to oneself, that contribute to
personal happiness and, secondly, on measuring the relative
strength of their contribution. By contrast, an analysis of the
externalities that people impose upon others lies at the heart of
this book. Economics, Religion and Happiness will primarily appeal
to students, academics and researchers across economics,
psychology, philosophy, and sociology, and will also find an
audience among those interested in exploring issues related to
happiness in greater depth.
While women's cricket, and women's sport in general, has gained
enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and TV
audiences, comparatively little is known about it and its
participants, and there are few, if any, quantitative assessments
of the game. The Economics of Gender and Sport: A Quantitative
Analysis of Women's Cricket fills that gap. The work analyses the
different forms of cricket - Test cricket, One-day, T20 - and is
based on the latest sets of available data. It seeks to answer
questions such as how well female cricketers play, how well they
are paid, who the superstars are, and how competitive women's
cricket is. It also examines more general issues which affect men's
cricket too, with the over-arching theme of this book being
inequality. First, the chapters discuss inequality in the
distribution of luck. The book discusses the importance of luck in
cricket and suggests a way of distinguishing between luck and
ability in determining match outcomes. Second there is access
inequality, which means that players from certain groups have an
advantage in terms of being chosen to play in representative teams.
Third, there is inequality in tournament outcomes, and this carries
implications for the degree of competitive balance in contests
between teams. Fourth is the issue of inequality in the quality of
umpiring in men's and women's cricket. Fifth, there is inequality
between men and women in their respective remunerations as
cricketeers. Lastly, there is inequality in performance between
players: the book explains how batting and bowling averages can be
adjusted to better reflect player performance. The volume will find
an audience among advanced students and researchers in sports
economics, sports-related and gender studies. More generally, it
will appeal to lovers of cricket who wish to read about the game in
terms which are more than simply anecdotal.
Using data from the World Values Survey, this book sheds light on
the link between happiness and the social group to which one
belongs. The work is based on a rigorous statistical analysis of
differences in the probability of happiness and life satisfaction
between the predominant social group and subordinate groups. The
cases of India and South Africa receive deep attention in dedicated
chapters on cast and race, with other chapters considering issues
such as cultural bias, religion, patriarchy, and gender. An
additional chapter offers a global perspective. On top of this, the
longitudinal nature of the data facilitates an examination of how
world happiness has evolved between 1994 and 2014. This book will
be a valuable reference for advanced students, scholars and
policymakers involved in development economics, well-being,
development geography, and sociology.
Using data from the World Values Survey, this book sheds light on
the link between happiness and the social group to which one
belongs. The work is based on a rigorous statistical analysis of
differences in the probability of happiness and life satisfaction
between the predominant social group and subordinate groups. The
cases of India and South Africa receive deep attention in dedicated
chapters on cast and race, with other chapters considering issues
such as cultural bias, religion, patriarchy, and gender. An
additional chapter offers a global perspective. On top of this, the
longitudinal nature of the data facilitates an examination of how
world happiness has evolved between 1994 and 2014. This book will
be a valuable reference for advanced students, scholars and
policymakers involved in development economics, well-being,
development geography, and sociology.
The theme of this book is health outcomes in India, in particular
to outcomes relating to its caste and religious groups and, within
these groups, to their women and children. The book's tenor is
analytical and based upon a rigorous examination of recent data
from both government and non-government sources. The major areas
covered are sanitation, use by mothers of the government's child
development services, child malnutrition, deaths in families,
gender discrimination, and the measurement of welfare.
This book quantitatively analyses data to demonstrate India's
recent progress in the education sector. India, as one of the
world's fastest growing economies, currently enjoys what is termed
a 'demographic dividend' meaning that, compared to most other
countries, it has a relatively young working age population. In
order to exploit this advantage, the author argues that India needs
to make this young population economically productive through
education. The chapters in the book address whether India has
succeeded in doing so, both in terms of numbers educated and the
quality of their education. The author draws on specialist surveys
conducted by India's National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) in 2008
and 2014 which examine the state of education in India.
The theme of this book is health outcomes in India, in particular
to outcomes relating to its caste and religious groups and, within
these groups, to their women and children. The book's tenor is
analytical and based upon a rigorous examination of recent data
from both government and non-government sources. The major areas
covered are sanitation, use by mothers of the government's child
development services, child malnutrition, deaths in families,
gender discrimination, and the measurement of welfare.
'This starkly lucid and timely book absorbs the nuances of the
largest festival - the elections - of the world's largest
democracy. Hailing from a political family, the author conveys his
passion and knowledge on the intricacies, as well as the heat and
dust of his national fete. All data and events have been
methodically examined in this absorbing analytical work which is an
indispensable and scholarly book on the Indian elections.'- Thankom
Arun, Professor at the University of Essex, UK This book provides a
quantitative analysis of eight elections and an insight into voting
patterns, detailing the election result for each candidate, for all
the constituencies, in every Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's
Bicameral-Parliament) general election from 1962 to 2014. The
central purpose of this interrogation of data is to give shape to
the notion of 'electoral efficiency', or the capacity of a party to
convert votes into parliamentary seats. Parliamentary elections in
India - and also elections to its state assemblies - are conducted
under the First Past the Post (FPTP) system whereby a single
representative for each of the 543 constituencies is elected as a
Member of the Lok Sabha, on the basis of obtaining the largest
number of all the candidates contesting that constituency. In
brief, Votes, Parties, and Seats provides an in-depth study of the
results of parliamentary general elections in India, and sheds
light on why some parties are more efficient than others.
This book quantitatively analyses data to demonstrate India's
recent progress in the education sector. India, as one of the
world's fastest growing economies, currently enjoys what is termed
a 'demographic dividend' meaning that, compared to most other
countries, it has a relatively young working age population. In
order to exploit this advantage, the author argues that India needs
to make this young population economically productive through
education. The chapters in the book address whether India has
succeeded in doing so, both in terms of numbers educated and the
quality of their education. The author draws on specialist surveys
conducted by India's National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) in 2008
and 2014 which examine the state of education in India.
'This starkly lucid and timely book absorbs the nuances of the
largest festival - the elections - of the world's largest
democracy. Hailing from a political family, the author conveys his
passion and knowledge on the intricacies, as well as the heat and
dust of his national fete. All data and events have been
methodically examined in this absorbing analytical work which is an
indispensable and scholarly book on the Indian elections.'- Thankom
Arun, Professor at the University of Essex, UK This book provides a
quantitative analysis of eight elections and an insight into voting
patterns, detailing the election result for each candidate, for all
the constituencies, in every Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's
Bicameral-Parliament) general election from 1962 to 2014. The
central purpose of this interrogation of data is to give shape to
the notion of 'electoral efficiency', or the capacity of a party to
convert votes into parliamentary seats. Parliamentary elections in
India - and also elections to its state assemblies - are conducted
under the First Past the Post (FPTP) system whereby a single
representative for each of the 543 constituencies is elected as a
Member of the Lok Sabha, on the basis of obtaining the largest
number of all the candidates contesting that constituency. In
brief, Votes, Parties, and Seats provides an in-depth study of the
results of parliamentary general elections in India, and sheds
light on why some parties are more efficient than others.
"The author has done a service to this line of study by collating
and analysing a novel dataset in a manner that is going to be of
use for researchers of the labour market in India, a subject in
need of critical enquiry."- Shanti Chakravarty, Professor of
Economics, Bangor University, Wales, UK This book deconstructs the
dynamics of the job market in an emerging economy (India) that has
vast capital resources, addressing a key concern in relation to
inequality in the labour market by social groups. The author
examines the changing impact of caste on employment opportunity
using two sets of large databases, and extends this analysis into
religious affiliation and gender. The findings in this book will be
of importance to those working in both research and policy, and
makes an important contribution through addressing the
decomposition of inequality based on disparity and discrimination.
"The author has done a service to this line of study by collating
and analysing a novel dataset in a manner that is going to be of
use for researchers of the labour market in India, a subject in
need of critical enquiry."- Shanti Chakravarty, Professor of
Economics, Bangor University, Wales, UK This book deconstructs the
dynamics of the job market in an emerging economy (India) that has
vast capital resources, addressing a key concern in relation to
inequality in the labour market by social groups. The author
examines the changing impact of caste on employment opportunity
using two sets of large databases, and extends this analysis into
religious affiliation and gender. The findings in this book will be
of importance to those working in both research and policy, and
makes an important contribution through addressing the
decomposition of inequality based on disparity and discrimination.
A comprehensive assessment of the broad issues that underpin social
exclusion in India This book posits the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and
Scheduled Tribes (STs) vis-a-vis their upper-caste Hindu peers and
establishes how caste is a lived reality in everyday life in modern
India. It explores areas where caste and religious exclusion are
most visible, such as human development, inequality, poverty,
educational attainments, child malnutrition, health, employment,
wages, gender, and access to public goods. With an in- depth
theoretical foundation and empirical analysis, it establishes that
in each of these sectors, the performance of upper-caste Hindu
households is far better compared to that from the SC, ST, and
Muslim households.
This book discusses the estimation, simulation, and interpretation of models with multiple outcomes, when these outcomes are either ordered or unordered, against the backdrop of examples relating to socioeconomic inequality. The book includes exposition of the important distinction between odds-ratios and risk-ratios, logit versus probit (and, vice-versa) as well as a step-by-step explanation of the practical computing procedures that underpin the analysis.
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