Research Department

Inter-American Development Bank

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Monitoring The Urban Quality of Life in Latin America

 

 

Table of Contents

Abstract

Chapter 1       Latin American Cities: Their Origins, Achievements and Problems, By Eduardo Lora

 

Chapter 2       Happiness, Economics and Hedonic Equations, By Bernard M.S. Van Praag and Ada Ferrer -i- Carbonell

 

Chapter 3       What Determines Neighborhood Quality of Life:  A Summary of the Results from Case Studies, By Andrew Powell and Pablo Sanguinetti

 

Chapter 4       Quality of Life in Buenos Aires’ Neighborhoods: Hedonic Price Regressions and the Life Satisfaction Approach, By Guillermo Cruces, Andrés Ham and Martín Tetaz

 

Chapter 5       The Quality of Life of Urban Neighborhoods in Bolivia: A case of study of the Great La Paz and Santa Cruz, By Werner L. Hernani-Limarino, Wilson Jimenez, Boris Arias and Cecilia Larrea

 

Chapter 6       Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Colombia: The Cases of Bogotá and Medellín, By Carlos Medina, Leonardo Morales and Jairo Núñez

 

Chapter 7       Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Costa Rica, By Luis Hall, Róger Madrigal and Juan Robalino

 

Chapter 8       Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Metropolitan Lima, Peru, By Lorena Alcázar y Raúl Andrade

 

Chapter 9       Quality of Life in Montevideo, By Zuleika Ferre, Néstor Gandelman and Giorgina Piani (Universidad de la República)