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    Height and Happiness in a Developing Country

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    Sohn, Kitae
    Date
    2016
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    Type
    Journal Article
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    © 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.

    Citation
    Sohn, K. 2016. Height and Happiness in a Developing Country. Journal of Happiness Studies. 17 (1): pp. 1-23.
    Source Title
    Journal of Happiness Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51833
    DOI
    10.1007/s10902-014-9566-8
    Department
    Department of Economics & Property

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