Study Gehring (2013): study ZZ World samples 1981
- Public:
- 18+ aged, 79 countries, 1981-2007
- Survey name:
- WorldValuesSurv 1-5
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 200000
- Non Response:
- Assessment:
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Size of government
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- A: Government consumption
B: Transfers and subsidies
C: Government enterprises and investment
D: Top marginal tax rate
Da: Top marginal income tax rate
Db: Top marginal income and payroll tax rate
Observed Relation with Happiness
b's control for:
- social trust
- belief in God
- investment price level
- log GDP per capita
- government share as a percentage of GDP
- regional dummies
- period dummies
b's are for autoregressive (1) random effects model. Similar coefficients are obtained for pooled OLS with robust SE, fixed effects model, and random effects model.