Study Cheung (2018a): study ZZ World samples 1989
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, 33 nations, followed 1989 - 2012
- Survey name
- INT-World Values Survey, pooled waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 112876
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Net Gini
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Source: SWIID (Solt, 2016) (Standardized World Income Inequality Database Version 5.
- Distribution
- M = 38,5 SD = 9,91
- Operationalization
- Gini is between 0 and 1; a higher Gini implies more inequality. Net Gini is about inequality in disposable after Income Redistribution by taxation and transfers.
Observed Relation with Happiness
All nations, all waves, no controls.
More inequality in disposable household income: more happiness.
- Individual characteristics
- age
- income
- power distance
- National characteristics
- GDP per capita
- income redistribution
More inequality in disposable household income: more happiness.
Similar b's if controlled for egalitarian or political values.
(more inequality, less happiness)
b ontrolled for
- Individual characteristics
- age
- income
- egalitarian values
- political values
- power distance
- National characteristics
- CHANGE GDP per capita
- CHANGE income redistribution.