Horizontal and vertical contexts on Europeans’ Well-Being

Fernando Bruna ^[2] ; Isabel Neira ^[1] ; Marta Portela ^[1]
1. [1] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  
  Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  
  Santiago de Compostela, España
2. [2] Universidade da Cpruña
Localización: Applied econometrics and international development, ISSN 1578-4487, Vol. 19, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 37-56
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This paper analyzes the economic and social contextual determinants of individual life satisfaction and happiness across Europe. We provide new theoretical and empirical arguments about the consequences of horizontal and vertical spatial dependences in multilevel models. Using individual European data we estimate a random effects spatial lag of X (SLX) hierarchical model, which allows for local spillovers of contextual factors to neighboring regions defined at several aggregation levels. Our results not only confirm the role of regional contextual factors but the significance of the spatial lags of those contextual factors, probably indicating the presence of clustered latent variables