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Size of Town, Level of Education and Life Satisfaction in Western Europe
Author(s) -
Migheli Matteo
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12205
Subject(s) - human settlement , life satisfaction , cluster (spacecraft) , geography , socioeconomics , population , demographic economics , demography , psychology , economic growth , sociology , social psychology , economics , archaeology , computer science , programming language
Abstract I analyse the effect of living in settlements of different sizes on individual life satisfaction. The literature usually finds a negative correlation between life satisfaction and size of town. Here I cluster the population by level of education; the results show that people get dissatisfaction from living in large centres and that both education and income attenuate this effect. In particular, high education renders the cities and their features more enjoyable.