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Paradox and Perception : Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Inter-American Development Bank
Otros Autores: Lora, Eduardo, Graham, Carol, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 0 0 |a Paradox and Perception :   |b Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America /   |c Carol Graham, Eduardo Lora, editors. 
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505 0 |a 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. 
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