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Publication Date: 2015-01-01
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Poveda Bermúdez, Óscar M. (2015). Happiness in Latin America; some socioeconomic determinants. Revista De Antropología Y Sociología : Virajes, 17(1), 253–273. Retrieved from https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/virajes/article/view/1363
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Objetive: To analyze the factors that influence happiness in Latin America specifically in Mexico, Peru and Colombia between 2010 and 2013. Methodology: A logistic-ordered model to explain the state of happiness reported by a sub-sample taken from the last wave of the World Value Survey for the studied countries was estimated. The variables considered for this study were sex, age, educational level, income, employment, health and marital status reported by the survey respondents. Results and conclusions: The results indicate that health status has a significant impact on levels of happiness reported as well as the marital status. However, and contrary to what the economic theory points, the income level was not meaningful in this area.
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Di Tella, R., MacCulloch, R. and Oswald, A. (2003). The Macroeconomics of Happiness. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 85 (4), 809-827.
Dolan, P., Peasgood, T. and White, M. (2008). Do we really know what makes us happy? A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being. Journal of Economic Psychology, 29 (1), 94-122.
Easterlin, R., Angelescu, L., Switek, M., Sawangfa, O. and Smith, J. (2010). The happiness— income paradox revisited. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107 (52), 22463-22468.
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Easterlin, R. (2001). Income and Happiness: Towards Unified Theory. The Economic Journal, 111 (473), 465-484.
Easterlin, R. (2003). Explaining Happiness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100 (19), 11176-11183.
Eceiza, M. (2008). Economia y felicidad: acerca de la relación entre bienestar material y bienestar subjetivo. San Sebastían, España: Universidad del País Vasco.
Fisher, J. (2009). Happiness And Age Cycles – Return To Start…? On The Functional Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being And Age. Employment and Migration Working Papers, 99.
Gerstenbluth, M., Rossi, M. y Triunfo, P. (2008). Felicidad y salud: una aproximación al bienestar en el Río de la Plata. Estudios de Economía, 35 (1), 65-78.
Graham, C. (2005). The Economics of Happiness: Insights on globalization from a novel approach. World Economics, 6 (3), 41-58.
Graham, C. (2008). Happiness, Economics Of. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Recuperado de http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?id=pde2008_H000015.
Jevons, W. (1871). Teoria se la economía politica. Londres, Inglaterra: MacMillan And Co.
Kahneman, D. and Deaton, A. (2010). High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being. PNAS, 107 (38), 16489-16493.
Layard, R. (2005). La felicidad: lecciones de una nueva ciencia. Madrid, España: Taurus.
Layard, R. (2006). Happiness and Public Policy: A Challenge to the Profession. Economic Journal, 116 (510), C24-C33.
Lora, E. (2008). Calidad de vida: más allá de los hechos. Washington, USA: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo.
Oswald, A. (1999). A Non-Technical Introduction to the Economics of Happiness. Warwick, England: University of Warwick.
Peiro, A. (2006). Happiness, satisfaction and socio-economic conditions: Some international evidence. The Journal of Socio-Economics, 35 (2), 348-365.
Tian, G. and Yang, L. (2009). Theory of negative consumption externalities with applications to the economics of happiness. Economic Theory, 39 (3), 399-424.
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