Study Bjornskov (2006a): study ZZ 1995
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, 67 nations, 1995-2002
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 70000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Government consumption
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Source: Penn World Tables, Heston et al. (2002)
- Distribution
- N = 67 M = 16,88 SD = 9,22
- Operationalization
- Government consumption as % of national consumption.
Observed Relation with Happiness
'Poor' is lowest 33%, 'rich highest 33% in self rated income position.
-GDP per capita
-Openness
-Postcommunist
-Income-inequality
-Regulatory freedom
The more government consumption in a nation, the bigger difference in happiness between poor and rich. Yet among rich and democratic nations government consumption is unrelated to difference in happiness between the rich and the poor.