Paradox and perception : measuring quality of life in Latin America /
Measuring quality of life in Latin America
Carol Graham, Eduardo Lora, editors.
- Washington, D.C. : Inter-American Development Bank : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.
- xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- How Latin Americans assess their quality of life : insights and puzzles from novel metrics of well-being / Objective and subjective deprivation / The conflictive relationship between satisfaction and income / Satisfaction beyond income / Vulnerabilities and subjective well-being / Health perceptions and quality of life in Latin America / Education and life satisfaction : perception or reality? / Job insecurity and life satisfaction / Carol Graham and Jere R. Behrman -- Leonardo Gasparini ... [et al.] -- Eduardo Lora and Juan Camilo Chaparro -- Eduardo Lora, Juan Camilo Chaparro, and María Victoria Rodríguez -- Mauricio Cárdenas, Carolina Mejía, and Vicenzo di Maro -- Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora -- Mauricio Cárdenas, Carolina Mejía, and Vincenzo di Maro -- Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho, Raphael Botura Corbi, and Andrea Zaitune Curi.
"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.