What contributes to life satisfaction in transitional Romania?

Daniela Andrén () and Peter Martinsson

No 111, Working Papers in Economics from Göteborg University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we find that our results are very similar to studies in Western Europe and the US. Life satisfaction increases with housing standard, health status, economic situation, education, trusting other people, and living in the countryside, and decreases with rising unemployment. However, life satisfaction is lower than in Western countries with about 75% of the people in the sample being not at all satisfied or quite dissatisfied with their life in general. A policy discussion concludes the paper.

Keywords: general life satisfaction; subjective well-being; domain specific satisfaction; Romania; transition economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-10-15
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Published in Review of Development Economics, 2006, pages 59-70.

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