How difficult is it to interpret subjective well-being questions during crises? Evidence from the onset of conflict in Yemen
研究也门冲突爆发后，尽管客观福祉大幅下降，家庭主观幸福感却显著提升，揭示危机可能改变人们回答主观幸福感问题的方式，提醒政策制定者谨慎解读此类数据。
Abstract Subjective well-being (SWB) measures, such as satisfaction with income, are increasingly being used to measure changes in well-being in response to policy changes and shocks. However, large policy changes or shocks themselves might cause individuals to change how they answer SWB questions in ways that have little to do with changes in objective well-being measures. For example, respondent-specific scales that individuals use to respond to SWB questions (e.g. threshold of income required to be satisfied) might change at the same time that income is changing following a shock. We illustrate the importance of this concern following the onset of conflict in Yemen, where households reported a large improvement in SWB across a range of different dimensions despite large declines in nearly all traditional and objective measures of well-being.