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Studies

Krause (2013): study DE 2007

Publication

Author(s):
Krause, A.
Title:
Don't Worry, be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment.
Source:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, Vol. 96, 1 - 20

Investigation

Public
16+ aged, recently fallen unemployed, Germany, 2007-2008
Survey name
IZA Evaluation Dataset S
Sample
Non-probability purposive sample
Respondents
N = 2542
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life these days? Please answer with the help of this scale. For instance, when you are totally satisfied with your life, please tick '10'. When you are totally unsatisfied with your life, please tick '0'. You may use all values in between to indicate that you are neither totally satisfied nor totally unsatisfied."
10 totally satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0  totally unsatisfied
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d
Author's label:
Life satisfaction
Page in publication:
4
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
6.14 2.13
SD:
- -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Male