Horizontal and vertical contexts on Europeans’ Well-Being

  1. Fernando Bruna 1
  2. Isabel Neira 2
  3. Marta Portela 2
  1. 1 Universidade da Cpruña
  2. 2 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Revista:
Applied econometrics and international development

ISSN: 1578-4487

Ano de publicación: 2019

Volume: 19

Número: 2

Páxinas: 37-56

Tipo: Artigo

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Outras publicacións en: Applied econometrics and international development

Resumo

This paper analyzes the economic and social contextual determinants of individual life satisfaction and happiness across Europe. We provide new theoretical and empirical arguments about the consequences of horizontal and vertical spatial dependences in multilevel models. Using individual European data we estimate a random effects spatial lag of X (SLX) hierarchical model, which allows for local spillovers of contextual factors to neighboring regions defined at several aggregation levels. Our results not only confirm the role of regional contextual factors but the significance of the spatial lags of those contextual factors, probably indicating the presence of clustered latent variables

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