# How do citizens perceive centralization reforms ? Evidence from the merger of French regions

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- **Auteur** : [Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. France](https://superlivre.fr/auteur/institut-national-de-la-statistique-et-des-etudes-economiques-france-cb11864528n)
- **Première parution** : 2020
- **Langue** : français
- **Genres** : [Bien-être](https://superlivre.fr/genre/bien-etre-cb12107070g), [Régions administratives](https://superlivre.fr/genre/regions-administratives-cb119404808)
- **Éditions recensées** : 1 (2020–2020)

## Résumé

Using the 2016 merger of French regions as a natural experiment, this paper adopts a differencein-difference identification strategy to recover its causal impact on individual subjective wellbeing.No depressing effect is found despite increased centralization; life satisfaction has evenincreased in regions that were absorbed from economic and political viewpoints. The empiricalevidence also suggests that local economic performance improved in the concerned regions,which includes a faster decline in the unemployment rate. In this setting, economic gains havelikely outweighed cultural attachment to administrative regions.

## Éditions

| Année | Éditeur | Ville | Pages | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | [Insee](https://superlivre.fr/editeur/insee) | [Paris] |  |  |