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Journal of Happiness Studies
Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies 1/2016

07.10.2014 | Research Paper

Height and Happiness in a Developing Country

verfasst von: Kitae Sohn

Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Ausgabe 1/2016

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the Indonesian Family Life Survey to estimate the relationship between height and happiness in a developing country, Indonesia. This paper finds that tall men and women are happier than their short counterparts and that the magnitude of the relationship is large. More important, a parsimonious set of channels is identified to substantially explain the relationship between height and happiness: education and earnings for men, and education and relative position of earnings for women. However, for men but not for women, height still exhibits a non-negligible relationship with happiness even after controlling for an extensive array of covariates.
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1
The irrational choice in the first set of questions is the choice of Rp. 1 million today over Rp. 1 million in 1 year. A similar answer is considered irrational for the second set of questions.
 
2
Some health measures are restricted as follows to remove unreasonable values: 120 cm ≤ height ≤ 200 cm; 30 kg ≤ weight ≤ 150 kg; 10 kg/m2 ≤ BMI ≤ 45 kg/m2; 0.4L ≤ lung capacity ≤ 6L; 1 g/dL ≤ hemoglobin level ≤ 30 g/dL; 70 mmHg ≤ systolic ≤ 300 mmHg; 50 mmHg ≤ astolic ≤ 200 mmHg. Hypertension is defined by a systolic pressure equal to or greater than 140 mmHg or diastolic pressure equal to or greater than 90 mmHg.
 
3
Entering the number of symptoms of depression produces qualitatively the same results (not shown).
 
4
The marginal effects of lung capacity, hemoglobin level, and hypertension are not listed because they are neither statistically nor economically significant.
 
5
A small number of paid employees and self-employed workers reported very great earnings. For this paper, earnings over the 99th percentile value of earnings in the raw data for each type of workers (Rp. 5 million for paid employees and Rp. 9 million for self-employed workers) are replaced by the 99th percentile value of earning. Results are qualitatively the same without the adjustment or the observations.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Height and Happiness in a Developing Country
verfasst von
Kitae Sohn
Publikationsdatum
07.10.2014
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Journal of Happiness Studies / Ausgabe 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-014-9566-8

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