Study Muffels et al. (2012): study ZZ Europe 2008
- Public
- 18+ aged general public, 47 countries, 2008
- Survey name
- EU-EVS
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 67216
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Income Inequality (GINI)
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- GINI fugures for after tax net personal income provided by the World Bank is used.
- Operationalization
- GINI coefficient is calculated as the half of the mean differences in income between all individual pairs of income earners.
Observed Relation with Happiness
OPRC controlled for (model 5):
- individual characteristics
- sex
- age: in years, quadric, cubed
- age quadric*sex
- employment status
- log household income
- log relative income
- marital status
- bad health
- nation characteristics
- log GDP/capita
- unemployment rate
- personal characteristics
- social values
- sodernization values
- education
- number of children
- death of a child event
- religion
- church attendence
- social participation
- nation characteristics
- modernity (HDI)
- cross level interactions
- Social values*HDI
- Modernization values*HDI
- Social values*GINI
- Modernization values*GINI