Modeling the Happiness-Sustainability Nexus via Graphical Lasso and Quantile-on-Quantile Regression
用图形 Lasso 与分位数对分位数回归研究幸福感与可持续发展的联系
This paper investigates the nexus between subjective well-being and sustainability, proxied by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Index, using cross-country data from 126 nations in 2022. While prior research has highlighted a positive association between happiness and sustainable development, existing approaches largely rely on linear regressions or correlation-based measures that mask distributional heterogeneity, multicollinearity, and potential nonlinear dependence.…