Study Bruni & Stanca (2006): study ZZ 1990
- Public:
- Adults, general public, 80 nations, 1990-2004
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 259947
- Non Response:
- Assessment:
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Voluntary activities
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Kind of voluntary organizations actively involved in:
a: church, religious
b: sports, recreation
c: arts, music, educational
d: labor union
e: political party
f: environmental
g: professional
h: charity
0: no
1: yes
Observed Relation with Happiness
B's controlled for:
- member of any voluntary organization
- active in any voluntary organization
- income
- self rated health
- perceived freedom
- unemployed
- married
- education
- age
- gender
- religion perceived as important
- trust in people
- honesty (cheating on tax justifiable or not)
- individual country dummies
- time dummies for survey waves
B's estimated individually in separate equations (model a)
Not different when estimated jointly (models c and d)
B is points greater happiness on range 10-100 of people who participate in that kind of organization