Infrastructure and Subjective Well-Being from a Gender Perspective

Gloria Alarcón-García, José Daniel Buendía-Azorín and María del Mar Sánchez- de-la-Vega
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Gloria Alarcón-García: Department of Political Science, Social Anthropology and Public Finance, University of Murcia, 30001 Murcia, Spain
José Daniel Buendía-Azorín: Department of Applied Economics, University of Murcia, 30001 Murcia, Spain
María del Mar Sánchez- de-la-Vega: Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business, University of Murcia, 30001 Murcia, Spain

Administrative Sciences, 2022, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Mainstreaming gender analysis into all aspects of policy making, including infrastructure and economic policy, is a key aspect to achieving gender equality. The main objective of this paper is to examine the impact of several public infrastructures on well-being by gender, applying the Capability and Subjective Well-being approaches. An index of access to infrastructure is constructed and its effect on well-being is estimated using a new survey dataset from Spain. The results from the logistic regression model show that access to infrastructure positively affects subjective well-being, particularly of female respondents. All dimensions of infrastructure matter more for women’s well-being than men’s. Important differences in the impact on well-being by the types of infrastructures analyzed and the impact differs significantly by age are obtained. The findings suggest that designing public infrastructure policies can contribute to reducing gender well-being gap.

Keywords: benefits of gender equality through infrastructure provision survey; capabilities; gender; indicators; infrastructure; logistic regression; subjective well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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