Study Bjornskov (2014): study ZZ Europe 1975
- Public
- 14+ aged, 29 countries (EU member states and potential members), 1975-2011
- Survey name
- EU-Eurobarometer combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- GDP growth rate
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Data: national accounts data in the Penn World Tables
- Distribution
- M = 0,022 SD = 0,043
- Operationalization
- Annual growth rate adjusted for differences in purchasing power
Observed Relation with Happiness
B controlled for:
- Happiness 1 year before (to caputure CHANGE)
- Stable country characteristics
- Legal quality
- Social trust
- Postcommunist
- Openness economy
- Government size
- Investment price
- Regulations
- Crisis (episodes in which the year-to-year change in purchasing power adjusted GDP per capita is negative)
Fixed effects model. Random effects: B = +.31 (.1)
- Growth*crisis
Fixed effects model. Random effects: B = +.33 (.1)
B controlled for:
- Happiness 1 year before (to caputure CHANGE)
- Growth rate
- Stable country characteristics
- Legal quality
- Social trust
- Postcommunist
- Openness economy
- Government size
- Investment price
- Regulations
- Crisis (episodes in which the year-to-year change in purchasing power adjusted GDP per capita is negative)
Fixed effects model. Random effects: B = +.10 (ns)