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Peiró-Palomino, Jesús
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2018-08
This paper analyses convergence in well-being across 395 OECD regions in the period
2000–2014 using data from the Regional Well-being Dataset. It is widely known that
well-being is a concept that goes far beyond income. However, whereas papers analysing
convergence on income abound, the literature considering convergence in well-being is vir-
tually nonexistent, especially at the regional level. Convergence is approached following the
distribution dynamics technique and conditional density estimation (CDE), well-established
data-driven methods that allow for the assessment of the shape and the time evolution of
the kernel distribution of well-being. Moreover, the paper also assesses the role of a set of
potential well-being determinants. Results show great disparities across the OECD regions,
and no signs of convergence in the studied period. On the contrary, regions polarised into
two clubs of low and high well-being, and country level factors explain in a large extent the
observed tendencies.
PEIRÓ-PALOMINO, Jesús. Regional well-being in the OECD. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 1-24.
http://hdl.handle.net/10234/177963
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-018-9398-6
convergence
distribution dynamics
OECD regions
well-being
Regional well-being in the OECD