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Correlational findings

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
Housing type
Our Classification
Related specification variables
Operationalization
a: House (vs not)
b: Apartment (vs not)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-HL-c-sq-v-4-j b = +/-                           Happiness (dummies)
                       very   somewhat  unhappy

House                  +.04    +.01      +.01 O-HL-c-sq-v-4-j b = +/- Apartment              +.04    +.02      +.02

b controlled for
- Personal characteristics
   - Marital status
   - Education
   - Household income quartile
   - Personal income quartile
   - Household size
   - Unemployment rate
   - Church attendance
   - Foreign born
   - Home ownership
   - Spoken language
   - Age*sex
- Contextual characteristics
  - cigarette tax rate
  - year dummies

Unaffected by propensity to smoke