Gruber & Mullainathan (2006): study US 1973
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
- 16+ aged, United States of America, 1973 - 1998
- Survey name
- US-GSS
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 36421
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are....?
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 113
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 12%, 2: 55%, 3: 32% (total 99%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.20 7.23
- SD:
- 0.64 1.65