Social indicators research, 2012-08, Vol.108 (1), p.185-196
2012
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- Titel
- Does education affect happiness?: Evidence for Spain
- Ist Teil von
- Social indicators research, 2012-08, Vol.108 (1), p.185-196
- Ort / Verlag
- Dordrecht: Springer
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Quelle
- ERIC
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- In this paper we study the impact of education on happiness in Spain using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, by means of estimating Ordinal Logit Models. We find both direct and indirect effects of education on happiness. First, we find an indirect effect of education on happiness through income and labour status. That is, we find that people with a higher education level have higher income levels and a higher probability of being employed, and thus, report higher levels of happiness. Second, and after controlling by income, labour status and other socio-economic variables, we find that education has a positive (and direct) impact on happiness. We interpret this result as evidence of a "self-confidence" or "self-estimation" effect from acquiring knowledge. Finally, we find that the direct impact of education on happiness does not depend of the level of education (primary, secondary or tertiary).
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0303-8300, 1573-0921eISSN: 1573-0921DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9874-xTitel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1335018529
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- Schlagworte
- Academic Achievement, Auswirkung, Berufliche Stellung, Bildungsabschluss, Children, Correlation, Datasets, Education, Educational Attainment, Educational levels, Einkommenseffekt, Einkommenshöhe, Employment, Employment Level, Europe, Evidence, Foreign Countries, Gender, General studies, Glück, Happiness, Higher Education, Human capital, Human Geography, Income, Knowledge, Labor, Lebensqualität, Level of education, Life Satisfaction, Literature Reviews, Marital status, Microeconomics, Primary Education, Probability, Psychischer Faktor, Psychological Patterns, Public Health, Quality of Life Research, Secondary Education, Selbstbewusstsein, Self Esteem, Social Indicators, Social psychology, Social Sciences, Social surveys, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomics, Sociology, Sociology of education. Educational systems. Lifelong education, Soziale Situation, Sozioökonomischer Faktor, Spain, Spanien, Surveys, Unemployment, Variables, Wellbeing, Zufriedenheit