Study Gruber & Mullainathan (2006): study CA 1985
- Public
- +15 aged, general public, Canada, 1985-1998
- Survey name
- CN-GSS pooled waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 100663
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Marital status
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- a: 55%, b: 8%, c: 14%,
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- a: Married (vs not)
b: Separated/divorced (vs not)
c: Widowed (vs not)
Observed Relation with Happiness
very somewhat unhappy
Married +.18 -.08 -.10
b controlled for
- Personal characteristics
- Education
- Household Income Quartile
- Personal Income Quartile
- Household size
- Unemployment rate
- Church attendance
- Foreign born
- Housing type
- Dwelling ownership
- Spoken language
- Age*sex
- Contextual characteristics
- cigarette tax rate
- year dummies
Unaffected by propensity to smoke