02714cam a2200409 a 4500 128315 20230410105446.0 090731s2009 dcuad b 001 0 eng 15845750 2009030945 9780815703266 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0815703260 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn368046267 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP DBI C#P MUM DLC Eng cl----- HC 130 P222 2009 339.2098 Paradox and perception : measuring quality of life in Latin America / Carol Graham, Eduardo Lora, editors. Measuring quality of life in Latin America 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 / 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. "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. Income distribution Latin America. Equality Latin America. Latin America Social conditions 21st century. Distribución del ingreso América Latina. Equidad América Latina. América Latina Condiciones sociales Siglo XXI. Graham, Carol, 1962-, ed. Lora, Eduardo, ed. Inter-American Development Bank. lcc bk dvf 37128 37128 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 HC 130 P222 2009 00000121780 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk