We do not have the same tastes! Evaluating individual heterogeneity in the preferences for amenities

G Ahumada, V Iturra, M Sarrias - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020 - Springer
It is widely recognized by scholars that amenities affect the individual well-being. Ample
empirical evidence has been provided for developed countries, although this analysis for …

Gender differences in quality of life and preferences for location‐specific amenities across cities

CL Reynolds, AL Weinstein - Journal of Regional Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The quality of life literature revealed the role that natural resources and local consumption
amenities play in household preferences for cities and their growing importance in …

Whose happiness in which cities? A quantile approach

PS Morrison - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The proposition that living in the largest urban agglomerations of an advanced economy
reduces the average wellbeing of residents is known as the urban wellbeing paradox …

Happiness, geography and the environment

F Brereton, JP Clinch, S Ferreira - Ecological economics, 2008 - Elsevier
In recent years, economists have been using socio-economic and socio-demographic
characteristics to explain self-reported individual happiness or satisfaction with life. Using …

Does exposure to richer and poorer neighborhoods influence wellbeing?

D Wang, T Schwanen, Z Mao - Cities, 2019 - Elsevier
Geographical differences in wellbeing have attracted increased attention in the science of
happiness literature and recent research has become particularly interested in high …

Is the easy life always the happiest? Examining the association of convenience and well-being in Taiwan

CH Li, MC Tsai - Social indicators research, 2014 - Springer
Social scientists have under-examined neighborhood stores and other “resources” and their
relationships to community welfare and personal happiness. Because the presence of …

Subjective well-being in a spatial context

R Rijnks - 2020 - research.rug.nl
Recent progress in economics has moved subjective well-being towards the centre of the
discourse on economic policy and academic research. Until recently, the spatial side of …

Importance weighting in subjective well-being measures: Using marginal utilities as weights for domain satisfaction

A Kitsuki, S Managi - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023 - Springer
Whether perceived importance can be used as a weighting factor for the aggregation of
domain satisfaction is an important issue in the literature on subjective well-being (SWB) …

Do we live where it is pleasant? Correlates of perceived pleasantness with socioeconomic variables

J Monteiro, AC Carrilho, N Sousa, LK Oliveira… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Living in urban areas is the wish of many people. However, with population growth in those
areas, quality of life has become a concerning element for achieving sustainable cities …

Exploring preference homogeneity and heterogeneity for proximity to urban public services

A Ardeshiri, K Willis, M Ardeshiri - Cities, 2018 - Elsevier
Given that the majority of the world's population lives in urban places, the quality of the
urban environment has emerged as an issue of fundamental concern for citizens, academic …