Paradox and perception : measuring quality of life in Latin America / Carol Graham, Eduardo Lora, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graham, Carol, 1962-

Lora, Eduardo.

Inter-American Development Bank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--Latin America.

Income distribution.

Social conditions.

Latin America.

Equality--Latin America.

Equality.

Latin America--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Measuring quality of life in Latin America

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Inter-American Development Bank : Brookings Institution Press, [2009]

Summary:

"Improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America using a broad "quality-of-life" concept that challenges standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income. Builds upon new economic approaches related to the study of happiness, finding some paradoxes as respondents evaluate their well-being"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

How Latin Americans assess their quality of life: insights and puzzles from novel metrics of well-being / Carol Graham and Jere R. Behrman

Objective and subjective deprivation / Leonardo Gasparini ... [et al.]

The conflictive relationship between satisfaction and income / Eduardo Lora and Juan Camilo Chaparro

Satisfaction beyond income / Eduardo Lora, Juan Camilo Chaparro, and María Victoria Rodríguez

Vulnerabilities and subjective well-being / Mauricio Cárdenas, Carolina Mejía, and Vicenzo di Maro

Health perceptions and quality of life in Latin America / Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora

Education and life satisfaction: perception or reality? / Mauricio Cárdenas, Carolina Mejía, and Vincenzo di Maro

Job insecurity and life satisfaction / Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho, Raphael Botura Corbi, and Andrea Zaitune Curi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815703266

0815703260

OCLC:

368046267