Quality of Life and Living Standards Analysis: An Econometric Approach

by Sergey Artemyevich Aivazian

Overview

This book is about the concept of “Quality of Life”. What is necessary for quality of life, and how can it be measured?

The approach is a multicriterial scheme reduction which prevents as much information loss as possible when shifting from the set of partial criteria to their convolution.

This book is written for researchers, analysts and graduate and postgraduate students of mathematics and economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110382068
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	01/15/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	419
File size:	43 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sergey Artemyevich Aivazian, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction
I.1. About essence of concept “Quality of Life” (“QoL”)
I.2. What for it is necessary and why it is possible to measure quality of life
I.3. About two methodological approaches to an estimation and measuring of quality of life
Conclusions

Chapter 1 Basic theoretical concepts of quality of life and examples of approaches to its measuring
1.1. The choice of concepts of quality of life: from answers to what questions it depends?
1.2. The basic theoretical concepts of quality of life
1.3. Methods of quality of life measuring (world experience)
1.4. Analysis of properties of integrated indicators of quality of life (II QoL)
Conclusions

Chapter 2 Macroeconometric analysis of QoL: measuring of synthetic latent categories
2.1. Integrated components of a category “Quality of Life” and their decomposition
2.2. Requirements to formation of a priori sets of variables for various synthetic categories of quality of life
2.3. Methodology of measuring of synthetic categories of quality of life and methods of multicriterial rating of territories (countries, subjects of the Russian Federation, municipal unions)
2.4. Examples of construction II QoL in inter-country and inter-regional analysis
Conclusions

Chapter 3 Macroeconometric analysis of QoL in the problems of estimation the efficiency of a social and economic policy
3.1. General logic scheme of use of integrated indicators of quality of live in a problem of estimation of a social and economic policy efficiency
3.2. Parameters of a social-economic policy and institutional developments as determinants of improvement of quality of life of the population (results of inter-country econometric analysis)
3.3. Revealing of key directions of perfection the social and economic policy in the Russian regions
Conclusions

Chapter 4 Microeconometric analysis of quality of life and living standards
4.1. Consumption behavior of households and revealing of the type-forming variables (or the determinants)
4.2. Analysis and modeling of distributive relations in a society
4.3. Problems of the information support of quality of life and living standards micro econometric analysis
Conclusions

Appendices

Appendices to Chapter 2 (A2)
A2.1. Structure and the maintenance of the information included in the WCY
A2.2. A priori and a posteriori sets of partial criteria of a synthetic category “Quality of Life” the inter-country analysis (the source:[WCY, 2009])
A2.3. The initial and unified statistical data for the inter-country analysis (the source: [WCY, 2009])
A2.4. Results of realization of the formation procedures a posteriori set of partial criteria QoL on the basis a priori set in inter-country analysis
A2.5. Results of construction of II of QoL and rankings of the countries on the basis of [WCY, 2009] data
A2.6. A priori and a posteriori sets of the partial criteria for each synthetic category QoL of the subject of the Russian Federation
A2.7. The initial statistical data for a posteriori sets of indicators (in the naturaland unified form) on regions of Russia
A2.8. Values block and summary II each synthetic category QoL for the Russian Federations regions
A2.9. Values of single (summary) II QoL and the integrated indicators on each synthetic category for the Russian Federations regions4

Appendices to Chapter 3 (A3)
A3.1. The table of values of II QoL ( y(1) y(4)) and corresponding explanatory
variables (x(1) x(17)) for 60 countries and regions6
A3.2. Dynamics of the variables-determinants measured in natural units
A3.3. An a priori set of indices of social and economic and Institutional
development for the Russian Federation region3
A3.4. The initial data for econometric analysis of dependences II QoL from characteristics of a social and economic policy and Institutional development of region

Appendices to Chapter 4 (A4)
A4.1. Some auxiliary knowledge on methods and algorithms of statistical processing not quantitative variables
A4.2. Probability of evasion of the household from survey as function of some it characteristics (results of the analysis)
A4.3. Results of the statistical analysis of the mixture-distributions models in frameworks statistically observable range of values of household total expenses
A4.4. Results of the nonparametric analysis of the distribution of Russia population by per capita expenses

References
Index