Sources of happiness in Indonesia
Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper elucidates the factors related to happiness in Indonesia. Some factors yield results consistent with those in the literature, but other factors such as unemployment and the female gender turn out not to be robust. Some attempts are made to purge en...
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2013
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| author | Sohn, Kitae |
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| description | Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper elucidates the factors related to happiness in Indonesia. Some factors yield results consistent with those in the literature, but other factors such as unemployment and the female gender turn out not to be robust. Some attempts are made to purge endogeneity for past income mobility, social trust, and political environment. Also, measures with a more immediate impact on happiness are exploited for social trust and political environment. The sign of the coefficient on past income mobility is reversed once the variable has been purged of endogeneity. In addition, social trust and political environment are found to have little relationship with happiness. © World Scientific Publishing Company. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-517242017-09-13T15:36:42Z Sources of happiness in Indonesia Sohn, Kitae Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper elucidates the factors related to happiness in Indonesia. Some factors yield results consistent with those in the literature, but other factors such as unemployment and the female gender turn out not to be robust. Some attempts are made to purge endogeneity for past income mobility, social trust, and political environment. Also, measures with a more immediate impact on happiness are exploited for social trust and political environment. The sign of the coefficient on past income mobility is reversed once the variable has been purged of endogeneity. In addition, social trust and political environment are found to have little relationship with happiness. © World Scientific Publishing Company. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51724 10.1142/S0217590813500148 World Scientific Publishing restricted |
| spellingShingle | Sohn, Kitae Sources of happiness in Indonesia |
| title | Sources of happiness in Indonesia |
| title_full | Sources of happiness in Indonesia |
| title_fullStr | Sources of happiness in Indonesia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sources of happiness in Indonesia |
| title_short | Sources of happiness in Indonesia |
| title_sort | sources of happiness in indonesia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51724 |