Social cohesion and neighborhood satisfaction: Study in middle-low income urban communities

In this paper the relationship of social cohesion and neighborhood satisfaction, an indicator of welfare of residents, is analyzed. Using data of a survey applied to residents of two neighborhoods in Mon-terrey, Nuevo Leon, considering different attributes of the social en-vironment (neighborhood trust, neighborhood participation, collabo-rative behavior, and neighborhood identity), we calculate an index of social cohesion to relate with neighborhood satisfaction. We estimat-ed different specifications by probit and ordered probit. We find evi-dence that social cohesion has a positive and statistically significant relationship with the degree of neighborhood satisfaction. This result not only contributes to the related literature, but also to validate so-cial programs and public policy whose objective is to increase the well-being of citizens through actions aimed at improving social co-hesion.