IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/toh/dssraa/122.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Spatial analysis of subjective well-being in Japan

Author

Listed:
  • Anqi Li
  • Takaki Sato
  • Yasumasa Matsuda

Abstract

This study investigates subjective well-being in Japan using a survey of 22,539 respondents in 46 prefectures in December 2019. We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to the self-reported well-being respondents, supposing that well-being is decomposed into regional and individual factors. As a result, regional heteroscedasticity and individual factors are identified jointly, which clarifies the interesting features of Japanese subjective well-being. From the identified regional factors in prefectural levels, we find that coastal areas damaged by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear plant accidents have the lowest subjective well-being. This finding suggests that residents in the regions have not recovered and require additional mental and physical public support.

Suggested Citation

  • Anqi Li & Takaki Sato & Yasumasa Matsuda, 2021. "Spatial analysis of subjective well-being in Japan," DSSR Discussion Papers 122, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University.
    • Handle: RePEc:toh:dssraa:122
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10097/00131532
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. David G. Blanchflower & Carol L. Graham, 2022. "The Mid-Life Dip in Well-Being: a Critique," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 161(1), pages 287-344, May.

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:toh:dssraa:122. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tohoku University Library (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fetohjp.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.