Assessing well-being in European regions. Does government quality matter?

Jesús Peiró-Palomino () and Andres Picazo-Tadeo

No 2018/06, Working Papers from Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain)

Abstract: This paper contributes a composite indicator of well-being for 168 European regions built with data from 10 well-being domains provided by the OECD Regional Well- being Dataset. Regions are then ranked according to their respective levels of well-being. Furthermore, the role of the quality of regional governments in explaining well-being dis- parities is assessed using data from the Quality of Government EU Regional Dataset. Results reveal notable well-being differences across European regions, especially between core and periphery ones, with the former enjoying higher well-being. In addition, government quali- ty is found to boost regional well-being, although uneven impacts are found for core and periphery regions.

Keywords: Composite well-being indicators; European regions; government quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C61 H41 I31 R50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2018
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