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02653cam a2200385Ia 4500 001 55C266C0FBD011DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 003 SILO 005 20100120073657 008 090731s2009 dcua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009030945 020 $a 0815703260 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780815703266 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)368046267 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d DBI $d C#P $d MUM $d LUI $d SILO 043 $a cl----- 050 00 $a HC130.I5 $b P37 2009 082 00 $a 339.2098 $2 22 245 0 $a Paradox and perception : $b measuring quality of life in Latin America / $c Carol Graham, Eduardo Lora, editors. 246 30 $a Measuring quality of life in Latin America 260 $a Washington, D.C. : $b Brookings Institution Press, $c c2009. 300 $a xiii, 258 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 MariÌa Victoria RodriÌguez -- Vulnerabilities and subjective well-being / Mauricio CaÌrdenas, Carolina MejiÌa, 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 CaÌrdenas, Carolina MejiÌa, and Vincenzo di Maro -- Job insecurity and life satisfaction / Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho, Raphael Botura Corbi, and Andrea Zaitune Curi. 520 $a "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. 650 0 $a Income distribution $z Latin America. 650 0 $a Equality $z Latin America. 651 0 $a Latin America $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 700 1 $a Graham, Carol, $d 1962- 700 1 $a Lora, Eduardo. 710 2 $a Inter-American Development Bank. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180120060227.0 952 $l N5UX522 $d 20100120073657.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=55C266C0FBD011DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 994 $a 02 $b LUIInitiate Another SILO Locator Search