How's Life in Your Region? Measuring Regional Material Living Conditions, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-Being in OECD Countries Using a Robust, Conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt Model

Eni Dardha () and Nicky Rogge ()
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Eni Dardha: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven)
Nicky Rogge: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven)

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2020, vol. 151, issue 3, No 10, 1015-1073

Abstract: Abstract This paper measures and analyses well-being in the 349 regions in OECD countries. It is argued that the multidimensional nature of well-being and the disparate policy priorities of nations/regions calls for a reconciliatory performance evaluation framework, for which this paper advocates the use of Benefit-of-the-Doubt (BoD) weighting. In particular, using the BoD-model, three multidimensional measures of regional well-being are computed: a material condition measure, a quality of life index and a subjective life satisfaction measure. To account for the presence of certain exogenous conditions in the regional policy environments, the conditional robust order-m version of the BoD-model is applied. Results show considerable between- and within-country disparity in regional performances across the three domains of well-being. Countries such as Australia, Canada, Norway and Iceland show consistently high levels of regional well-being. Consistently low performance levels are observed for Chile, Turkey and Poland.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Benefit-of-the-doubt model; Composite indicator; Regional well-being; Conditional order-m BoD; OECD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02411-x

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