Study Boyce & Wood (2011): study DE 2005
- Public
- 17-96 aged, general public Germany, followed 4 years 2005-2008
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 54460
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Employment status
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
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Mean (S.D.)
a) Unemployed: 0.06 (0.24)
b) Retired: 0.25 (0.43) - Operationalization
- a) Unemployed
b) Retired
c) Any other responses to occupation position (reference group)
Observed Relation with Happiness
All betas, based upon fixed effects, controlled for:
- Monthly household income (log)
- Household size (log)
- Marital status
- Disabled
- Child dummy
Slightly larger results for pooled OLS