The response of regional well-being to place-based policy interventions

Quality of Life in Rural Areas: A Set of Indicators for Improving Wellbeing

“…European policies are aimed at supporting local development [63,109]. Ferrara et al [10] underline that European rural development policies influence local community wellbeing; they demonstrate a linear relation between total money transfer and wellbeing, with differences due to the period considered and the level of development of the area.…”

“…Wellbeing and quality of life are themes of interest not only at a national level but at a local level too [9], especially for those variables that are under the responsibility and management of local entities. This topic has become of interest at the European level [10]. For example, the OECD Regional Well-Being Guide underlines that "The framework for regional and local well-being starts with the consideration that making better policies for better lives means understanding what matters to people" [11].…”

The heterogeneous effect of European Union Cohesion Policy on regional well-being

“…Only recently two contributions have explored the effect of CP on social outcomes beyond GDP (Albanese et al, 2023; Ferrara et al, 2022). Even though both studies highlight the importance of measuring the impact of the CP not solely on pure economic outcomes, neither of them emphasises the possible regional heterogeneity of the effect, which instead represents a specific contribution of our study.…”

No human is an island: essays on the economic geography of happiness

“…These findings suggest that there is evidence of spatial interdependencies between communities. Hence, the findings can inform and support local and regional policy decision making pertaining to the well-being and life satisfaction in rural and urban places (Ferrara et al 2022).…”

“…On the other hand, the studies that focus on aggregated level happiness either use annual rankings between countries when it comes to similar measures (Veenhoven et al 1993;Veenhoven 1995;Inglehart et al 2000; OECD Better Life Index 2011; World Happiness Report 2022 31 ) or they examine factors related to aggregated happiness (Schyns 1998;Stevenson and Wolfers 2013;Steptoe et al 2015). There has also been an increasing number of studies concentrated on the subnational level examining regional correlates of happiness and well-being (Lawless and Lucas 2011;Ferrara et al 2022) as well as efforts to combine individual and country or regional level data with the use of multilevel modelling Neira et al 2018;. , on the other hand, using a local level dataset for Australia examine the spatial variation of life satisfaction while employing geographically weighted regressions which estimate the relationships of interest separately for each region.…”