Study Helliwell et al. (2018): study ZZ World samples 2005 /1
- Public
- Survey name
- Gallup poll
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 900000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Social support
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Source: Gallup World Poll Binary responses assumed.
- Distribution
- M=0,82 SD=0,12
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- National average of self-reports for the question, "If you were in trouble, do you have relatives or friends you can count on to help you whenever you need them, or not?"
Observed Relation with Happiness
- Without country fixed effects
b controls for:
- democratic quality
- delivery quality
- log GDP per capita
- healthy life expectancy
- freedom to make life choices
- generosity
- year fixed effects
Similar patterns are obtained when b additionally controls for:
- Regional fixed effects
b controls for:
- democratic quality
- delivery quality
- log GDP per capita
- healthy life expectancy
- freedom to make life choices
- generosity
A similar result is obtained when b controls for:
- regional fixed effects
b controls for:
- Confidence in the national government (Gallup)
- Logged GDP
- Democratic quality
- Delivery quality
- Country fixed effects
- Year fixed effects
- Freedom to make life choices
- Social support
Similar results are obtained when some controls are removed.
In sum: Social support has a positive effect on life satisfaction.