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Segregation and Life Satisfaction
Our aim is to cast light on socioeconomic residential segregation effects on life satisfaction (LS). In order to test our hypothesis, we use survey data from Chile (Casen) for the years 2011 and 2013. We use the Duncan Index to measure segregation based on income at the municipality level for 324 mu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7894574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33613361 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.604194 |
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description | Our aim is to cast light on socioeconomic residential segregation effects on life satisfaction (LS). In order to test our hypothesis, we use survey data from Chile (Casen) for the years 2011 and 2013. We use the Duncan Index to measure segregation based on income at the municipality level for 324 municipalities. LS is obtained from the CASEN survey, which considers a question about self-reported well-being. Segregation’s impact upon LS is not clear at first glance. On one hand, there is evidence telling that segregation’s consequences are negative due to the spatial concentration of poverty and all the woes related to it. On the other hand, segregation would have positive effects because people may feel stress, unhappiness, and alienation when comparing themselves to better-off households. Additionally, there is previous evidence regarding the fact that people prefer to neighbor people of a similar socioeconomic background. Hence, an empirical test is needed. In order to implement it, we should deal with two problems, first, the survey limited statistical significance at the municipal level, hence we use the small area estimation (SAE) methodology to improve the estimations’ statistic properties, and second, the double causality between segregation and LS; to deal with the latter, we include lagged LS as a regressor. Our findings indicate that socioeconomic segregation has a positive effect on LS. This result is robust to different econometric specifications. |
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spelling | pubmed-78945742021-02-20 Segregation and Life Satisfaction Montero, Rodrigo Vargas, Miguel Vásquez, Diego Front Psychol Psychology Our aim is to cast light on socioeconomic residential segregation effects on life satisfaction (LS). In order to test our hypothesis, we use survey data from Chile (Casen) for the years 2011 and 2013. We use the Duncan Index to measure segregation based on income at the municipality level for 324 municipalities. LS is obtained from the CASEN survey, which considers a question about self-reported well-being. Segregation’s impact upon LS is not clear at first glance. On one hand, there is evidence telling that segregation’s consequences are negative due to the spatial concentration of poverty and all the woes related to it. On the other hand, segregation would have positive effects because people may feel stress, unhappiness, and alienation when comparing themselves to better-off households. Additionally, there is previous evidence regarding the fact that people prefer to neighbor people of a similar socioeconomic background. Hence, an empirical test is needed. In order to implement it, we should deal with two problems, first, the survey limited statistical significance at the municipal level, hence we use the small area estimation (SAE) methodology to improve the estimations’ statistic properties, and second, the double causality between segregation and LS; to deal with the latter, we include lagged LS as a regressor. Our findings indicate that socioeconomic segregation has a positive effect on LS. This result is robust to different econometric specifications. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7894574/ /pubmed/33613361 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.604194 Text en Copyright © 2021 Montero, Vargas and Vásquez. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Montero, Rodrigo Vargas, Miguel Vásquez, Diego Segregation and Life Satisfaction |
title | Segregation and Life Satisfaction |
title_full | Segregation and Life Satisfaction |
title_fullStr | Segregation and Life Satisfaction |
title_full_unstemmed | Segregation and Life Satisfaction |
title_short | Segregation and Life Satisfaction |
title_sort | segregation and life satisfaction |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7894574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33613361 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.604194 |
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