Study Hartog & Oosterbeek (1998): study NL 1952
- Public:
- 41 aged, Brabant, the Netherlands, followed 1952-1993
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 1893
- Non Response:
- 53,6%
- Assessment:
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Questionnaire: paper
Mailed questionnaire at T3.
Correlate
- Authors's label
- family status
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- a. Married male (reference)
b. Female
c. Divorced
d. Widow
e. Single
f Number of children
Observed Relation with Happiness
OPRC's controlled for:
-schooling
-intelligence
-social background
-labour market status
-self-perceived health
-wealth.
OLRC (Ordered Probit Regression Coefficient) cannot be interpreted as an absolute effect-size. The coefficients only denote relative differences in correlation between marital status and happiness, e.g. widowed people are unhappier than divorced people.