Gruber & Mullainathan (2006): study CA 1985
Publication
- Author(s):
- Gruber, J.; Mullainathan, S.
- Title:
- Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?
- Source:
- Ng, Y.K.;Ho, S.L.;Eds.: ''Happiness and Public Policy'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, UK, 109 - 146
Investigation
- Public
- +15 aged, general public, Canada, 1985-1998
- Survey name
- CN-GSS pooled waves
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 100663
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question
In general, how happy would you say you are these days?
1 very unhappy
2 somewhat unhappy
3 somewhat happy
4 very happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-4-j
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Remarks:
- Percent "Very unhappy" and "somewhat unhappy" were not reported separately by the authors, but as a combination amounting to 5%. WDH team assumed 2% and 3% respectively in order to compute transformed scores
- Page in publication:
- 124
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 2%, 2: 3%, 3: 34%, 4: 59% (total 98%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.53 7.80
- SD:
- 0.66 2.04