Impacto de las amenidades en la satisfacción con la vida de los ecuatorianos en los años 2014-2015

Abstract

The objective of this study is to determine the importance of the amenities for the subjective well-being (SWB) of people at a canton level. Ecuadorian cantons are taken as the study case. Individual and social characteristics are controlled before concluding about the amenities-well-being relationship. To do so, an ordered logistic regression model is estimated using the levels of life satisfaction, over the period 2014-2015, as the dependent variable. While most of the SWB variation is usually due to the individual characteristics, the results suggest that the exiting amenities within each canton have an important effect on the welfare of residents. This is how public policies should focus on improving physical infrastructure within cities and on improving the actual distribution of the existing amenities.