03166nam 2200613Ia 450 991078043140332120200520144314.01-282-40364-897866124036440-8157-0395-3(CKB)2420000000002829(EBL)472697(OCoLC)613206312(SSID)ssj0000424855(PQKBManifestationID)11306085(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424855(PQKBWorkID)10475069(PQKB)10206118(MdBmJHUP)muse12740(Au-PeEL)EBL472697(CaPaEBR)ebr10348756(CaONFJC)MIL240364(MiAaPQ)EBC472697(EXLCZ)99242000000000282920090731d2009 uf 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrParadox and perception[electronic resource] measuring quality of life in Latin America /Carol Graham ; Eduardo Lora, editorsWashington, D.C. Inter-American Development Bank ; Brookings Institution Pressc20091 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8157-0326-0 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 distributionLatin AmericaEqualityLatin AmericaLatin AmericaSocial conditions21st centuryIncome distributionEquality339.2098Graham Carol1962-1100563Lora Eduardo1511989Inter-American Development Bank.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780431403321Paradox and perception3800810UNINA