Quality of life and subjective welfare in european econometric analysis

  1. SOMARRIBA, Noelia 1
  2. PENA, Bernardo 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

  2. 2 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

Revista:
Applied econometrics and international development

ISSN: 1578-4487

Año de publicación: 2008

Volumen: 8

Número: 2

Páginas: 55-66

Tipo: Artículo

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Otras publicaciones en: Applied econometrics and international development

Resumen

For more than three decades psychologists, sociologists and economists have used an ample rank of statistical and econometric techniques to analyze the answers to the questions of subjective well-being, of the all of these techniques the regression analysis it has been the most important tool. In this paper, we combine the subjective perceptions and the objective conditions and we make attempt to development a satisfaction model with the purpose of analyzing: the quality of life of the Europeans by means of European Quality of Life Survey and if our results were coherent with the obtained ones by other authors in this type of models.

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