Study Hessami (2010): study ZZ Western Europe 1990
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, 12 European nations, 1990-2000
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 153268
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Health expenditures
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Source: Calculations based on OECD National Accounts Volume IV.
- Operationalization
- Public expenditures on health as a share of total public expenditures.
Observed Relation with Happiness
Beta controlled for:
- individual level
- age
- sexe
- relative income
- ideological preferences
- marital status
- education
- employment status
- number of children
- national level
- unemployment rate
- inflation rate
- total government expenditures
- public education expenditures
- public social protection expenditures
Comparable result with ordered probit estimation: OPRC= -0,190
NB: according to the author this negative correlation can be spurious because there was no control for average health status. Higher levels of health expenditures are correlated with a lower average health status in society and this leads to lower levels of well-being (p.14).