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Feeling Left Behind? Territorial Disadvantage, Well-Being and Cohesion across European Regions

  • Stefano Maria Iacus
  • Giuseppe Porro
  • Haodong Qi
  • Devika Jain
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Abstract

Left-behind places are usually identified using economic, demographic and accessibility indicators, but these may not align with well-being and social cohesion. We combine ten years of territorial indicators with subjective measures derived from georeferenced social-media data for over 1,200 NUTS-3 regions in 28 European countries (2013-2023). Regional profiles and within-between panel models reveal uneven relationships: disadvantaged regions can display contrasting levels of well-being and cohesion, national context alters cross-country associations, and between-region differences diverge from within-region change. The findings show that aggregate measures conceal distinct forms and trajectories of territorial disadvantage.

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@misc{iacus2026feeling,
  title = {{Feeling Left Behind? Territorial Disadvantage, Well-Being and Cohesion across European Regions}},
  author = {Stefano Maria Iacus and Giuseppe Porro and Haodong Qi and Devika Jain},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.37866},
  eprint = {2609.37866},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37866},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Feeling Left Behind? Territorial Disadvantage, Well-Being and Cohesion across European Regions
AU  - Stefano Maria Iacus
AU  - Giuseppe Porro
AU  - Haodong Qi
AU  - Devika Jain
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/29
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.37866
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37866
AB  - Left-behind places are usually identified using economic, demographic and accessibility indicators, but these may not align with well-being and social cohesion. We combine ten years of territorial indicators with subjective measures derived from georeferenced social-media data for over 1,200 NUTS-3 regions in 28 European countries (2013-2023). Regional profiles and within-between panel models reveal uneven relationships: disadvantaged regions can display contrasting levels of well-being and cohesion, national context alters cross-country associations, and between-region differences diverge from within-region change. The findings show that aggregate measures conceal distinct forms and trajectories of territorial disadvantage.
ER  -