TY - JOUR AU - Gallo-Rivera, M.-T. AU - Garrido-Yserte, R. AU - Boán-Garcés, J.-R. AU - Mancha-Navarro, T. T1 - Convergence in regional well-being in the European Union, 2000–2021 LA - eng PY - 2025/03/01/ T2 - Annals of Regional Science SN - 1432-0592 VL - 74 IS - 1 PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH AB - The paper examines the changes in well-being across different regions in EU countries from 2000 to 2021. It evaluates a variety of indicators related to material, personal, and community well-being. The results suggest that assuming perfect substitutability among different dimensions can lead to overestimating progress in regional well-being. Additionally, the study finds that the composite regional well-being index worsened from 2000 to 2014 but may have shown signs of improvement from 2014 to 2021. Also, no signs of convergence were found from 2000 to 2014; in contrast, the convergence path might have recovered from 2014 to 2021. However, the methods used to weigh different dimensions led to variations in regional well-being convergence or divergence patterns. DO - 10.1007/S00168-024-01334-6 UR - https://portalcientifico.uah.es/documentos/67bbb7a643384c1806796383 DP - Dialnet - Portal de la Investigación ER -