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28.04.2016 | Research Paper

The Determinants of Happiness in Turkey: Evidence from City-Level Data

verfasst von: Kâzım Anıl Eren, Ahmet Atıl Aşıcı

Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Ausgabe 3/2017

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This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in Turkey between 2004 and 2013 by relying on TURKSTAT’s Life Satisfaction Surveys. It contributes to the literature by employing a set of novel variables and a larger dataset which became representative at city-level in 2013. Some of the interesting findings are as follows: degree of hope is found to be the strongest estimator of happiness which was neglected in previous studies; job satisfaction is as important as being employed. Similarly, being married makes people happier only if they are satisfied from their marriage. Education brings more happiness only if it helps to increase income. Moreover, our results support Easterlin Paradox (Nations Househ Econ Growth Essays Honor Moses Abramovitz 1974. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-205050-3.50008-7). We have shown that happiness and income share a potent and positive relationship when yearly or pooled micro datasets are analysed, which has not been observed in macro data.

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Authors would like to thank to the anonymous referees for commenting on additional robustness checks.

Additionally, heteroscedasticity-corrected, cluster-corrected and bootstrap-corrected standard errors are estimated to see if there is considerable size effect or heteroscedasticity among data. P-values were not subject of such changes and the standard model is reported.

Regressions based on yearly datasets (such as using data only from year 2004) are not reported due to space constraints and but will be made available upon request.

LSS contains similar questions on, such as, subjective welfare, household income sufficiency and household income satisfaction. Therefore, separate regressions with four income variables and other variables had been run (not reported here) in order to detect the best performing income variable and based on Akaike Information Criterion and Pseudo-R² values, household income satisfaction variable is found out to be the best performing and is employed in the ordered logistic regressions. For a robustness check, regressions with income brackets are also presented in Appendix A, Table 4.

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See Table 5 in the Appendix A for the results of this alternative regression.

City and region dummies are reported in Appendix B, Table 6.

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Titel: The Determinants of Happiness in Turkey: Evidence from City-Level Data
verfasst von: Kâzım Anıl Eren
Ahmet Atıl Aşıcı
Publikationsdatum: 28.04.2016
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9746-9

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