Study Bjornskov et al. (2008a): study ZZ 1997
- Public:
- 18+ aged, general public, 66 nations, 1997-2001
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 62295
- Non Response:
- Assessment:
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Government consumption
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Government consumption in % GDP
Observed Relation with Happiness
- nation characteristics
- infant mortality
- years of independence
- religiousness
- bi-cameral system (vs not)
- openness of the economy
- post-communist (vs not)
- part of the world
- individual characteristics
- age
- gender
- education
- marital status
- occupation
- income
- religion
- voluntary work
- fiscal decentralization (expenditure)
- fiscal decentralization (revenue)
- transfer dependency (%)
- own tax source (%)
- administrative decentralization
- residual power
- local autonomy
- interaction of government consumption with these indicators