Life Satisfaction in the City

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dc.contributor.authorMartínez, Lina
dc.contributor.authorShort, John Rennie
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-12T12:11:43Z
dc.date.available2022-02-12T12:11:43Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractColombia is known as one of the happiest countries in the world despite poverty, crime and government corruption. This paper reports on a survey of life satisfaction conducted in Cali, the third largest city in the country, in order to analyze how life satisfaction is affected by the socioeconomic conditions of where people live and their satisfaction with government performance. We find that, on the surface, Cali’s habitants are generally happy, but when we look at the deep socioeconomic differences in the city, another picture emerges. We report two main findings: first, levels of happiness with home and city are relatively high, with neighborhood satisfaction much more dependent on socio-economic status; second, compared to personal subjective well-being, satisfaction with city government performance is much lower. There is a dichotomy in satisfaction levels at different spatial scales and between the private and public spheres.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.14650/97104en_US
dc.format.extent26 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.genrepostprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m28ez8-j2df
dc.identifier.citationLina Martínez, John Rennie Short, Life Satisfaction in the City, in "Scienze Regionali, Italian Journal of Regional Science" 3/2021, pp. 417-438, doi: 10.14650/97104en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.14650/97104
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/24254
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSocietà Editrice il Mulinoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.titleLife Satisfaction in the Cityen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7141-6626en_US

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