The extent to which income inequality and poverty vary within countries across different regions is very relevant for policy decisions and monitoring. However, sub-national measures are scarce, given the complexity of producing indicators at the regional level from the available data and the...

We study some measurement issues that arise when analyzing the long run behavior of the jth creative region's time t log output per creative class member (y_j(t)) when this region is part of an aggregate economy of j = 1, …, N creative regions. We focus first (second) on absolute (relative)...

We study some measurement issues that arise when analyzing the long run behavior of the jth creative region's time t log output per creative class member (y_j (t)) when this region is part of an aggregate economy of j=1,…,N creative regions. We focus first (second) on absolute (relative)...

Chapter 1. Happiness Geography: Defining the field (Eric Vaz) -- Part I. Regional Challenges -- Chapter 2. A Spatial Analysis of the Instagram hashtag #happy: An assessment of Toronto (Eric Vaz) -- Chapter 3. The subjective well-being in North Africa and the impacts on agriculture and urban land...