Paradox and perception
Subtitle: measuring quality of life in Latin America
By: Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora, editors.
Contributors: Graham, Carol, 1962-; Lora, Eduardo.; Inter-American Development Bank.
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank ; Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815703266
Subjects: Income distribution -- Latin America; Equality -- Latin America; Latin America -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : how Latin Americans assess their quality of life : insights and puzzles from novel metrics of well-being / Carol Graham and Jere R. Behrman; title: Objective and subjective deprivation / Leonardo Gasparini, Walter Sosa Escudero, Mariana Marchionni, and Sergio Olivieri; title: The conflictive relationship between satisfaction and income / Eduardo Lora and Juan Camilo Chaparro; title: Satisfaction beyond income / Eduardo Lora, Juan Camilo Chaparro and Maria Victoria Rodriguez; title: Vulnerabilities and subjective well-being / Mauricio Cardenas; title: Health perceptions and quality of life in Latin America / Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora; title: Education and life satisfaction : perception or reality? / Mauricio Cardenas, Carolina Mejia, and Vincenzo Di Maro; title: Job insecurity and life satisfaction / Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho, Raphael Botura Corbi, and Andrea Zaitune Curi.