Education and subjective well-being. Observations from Madagascar

• Authors: Małgorzata Klein

Abstracts

This paper examines the association between education and subjective well-being (SWB). To this end, the data collected during the My Baobab Foundation's (FMB) operations in Madagascar in 2007-2020 are analyzed a posteriori. The paper ofers some insight into what is required for a lowincome country to follow the pathway to education, and examines how educational eforts can translate into an improvement in SWB.

Keywords

EN

Subjective well-being (SWB); education; developing countries; Madagascar

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Klein

• https://orcid.org/0000000337373591

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0056

Biblioteka Nauki

1931399