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How happy are my neighbours? Modelling spatial spillover effects of well-being
Thanasis Ziogas, Dimitris Ballas, Sierdjan Koster +1
This article uses data of subjective Life Satisfaction aggregated to the community level in Canada and examines the spatial interdependencies and spatial spillovers of community ha…
SimAthens: A spatial microsimulation approach to the estimation and analysis of small-area income distributions and poverty rates in Athens, Greece
Anastasia Panori, Dimitris Ballas, Yannis Psycharis
Published during a severe economic crisis, this study presents the first spatial microsimulation model for the analysis of income inequalities and poverty in Greece. First, we pres…
`Truncate, replicate, sample': a method for creating integer weights for spatial microsimulation
Robin Lovelace, Dimitris Ballas
Iterative proportional fitting (IPF) is a widely used method for spatial microsimulation. The technique results in non-integer weights for individual rows of data. This is problema…
Happy places or happy people? A multi-level modelling approach to the analysis of happiness and well-being
Dimitris Ballas, Mark Tranmer
This paper aims to enhance our understanding of substantive questions regarding self-reported happiness and well-being through the specification and use of multi-level models. To d…