Veerle Van LoonUniversity of Antwerp | UA · Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid (CSB)
Veerle Van Loon
PhD student - Herman Deleeck Center for Social Policy - University of Antwerp
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Introduction
Veerle holds a master’s degree in Sociology (KU Leuven). Since 2017, she is a PhD student at the Herman Deleeck Center for Social Policy. Her PhD focuses on the development of a multidimensional well-being measure for older people. Alongside her PhD, Veerle is following an advanced master program in “Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences” (KU Leuven). She also cooperates on a project about the deployment of staff in residential care centers funded by the Flemish government.
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November 2017 - present
March 2017 - October 2017
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- Senior Researcher
June 2015 - February 2017
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Publications (3)
Background and Objectives
While it has become standard to include the views of older people when assessing their well-being, most existing methods are ill-suited to estimate the relative importance of well-being dimensions. This paper investigates the potential of the factorial survey method to estimate the relative importance of six well-being dim...
In this working paper, we investigated the potential of a factorial survey to estimate the relative importance of the well-being dimensions of health, income, social relations, leisure and religion or spirituality, according to the views of older people. For this purpose, a factorial survey was implemented in a longitudinal online survey among 800...
This note compares the age profile based on standard objective and subjective measures of successful aging with the age profile based on a novel preference-based measure proposed by Decancq and Michiels (2019). Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for 2013, we find that the share of persons between 50 and 90...
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Project (1)
The rapid aging of our societies poses enormous policy challenges.
To evaluate aging policies, policy makers and researchers need an
operational yardstick to measure well-being in old age. Since wellbeing
is a multidimensional notion, one needs to trade-off the
outcomes in the different well-being dimensions. Existing well-being
measures for older persons typically use a common trade-off for all
individuals and are thereby neglecting differences in older persons’
view on what’s important in life. The first objective of this research
project will be to develop a multidimensional well-being measure for
older persons with respect for individual variation in preferences.
Such a preference-based approach requires data about the view on
the "good life". The second objective of this project will be to
construct a survey instrument, called Well-BOA (Well-Being at Old
Age), that allows us to obtain reliable information on the preferences
of older persons in a simple and direct way. The survey instrument
will be tested in a series of on-line survey experiments and
implemented among a representative sample of the LISS panel and
the SHARE survey. Finally, we aim to explore two ways in which the
results can help to improve policies: first, by identifying the "worst-off"
with respect for the own view of older persons on the "good life" and,
second, by providing a measurement toolbox that is sensitive to the
distribution of well-being among the older population.
