Height and Happiness in a Developing Country
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.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 magnit...
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| description | © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-518332017-09-13T15:37:22Z Height and Happiness in a Developing Country Sohn, Kitae © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.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. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51833 10.1007/s10902-014-9566-8 Springer restricted |
| spellingShingle | Sohn, Kitae Height and Happiness in a Developing Country |
| title | Height and Happiness in a Developing Country |
| title_full | Height and Happiness in a Developing Country |
| title_fullStr | Height and Happiness in a Developing Country |
| title_full_unstemmed | Height and Happiness in a Developing Country |
| title_short | Height and Happiness in a Developing Country |
| title_sort | height and happiness in a developing country |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51833 |