Does Education Affect Happiness? Evidence for Spain

Cuñado, Juncal; Gracia, Fernando Pérez de

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“…Generally higher education level will increase the opportunity to make broader networking and employment (Chen, 2012). It also opens a bigger opportunity to get a better job and income which leads to happiness (Cunado & Garcia, 2012).…”

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The Effect of Income, Health, Education, and Social Capital on Happiness in Indonesia

Rahayu

Harmadi

2016

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The purpose of the study is to analyze the effect of income, health, education, and social capital on happiness in Indonesia. The data was taken from National Survey of Social Economic conducted by National Bureau of Statistics of Indonesia in 2012. Ordered probit model was used as estimation technique due to ordinal dependent variable and normal distribution of error assumption. The findings show happiness is affected by absolute income, physical perceived health status, mental health, medium and high level of education, trust in leader, participation on society's activities, tolerance, and help for and from others. However relative income, gender, household head, junior high school, and trust to neighbors do not have significant effect on happiness. Easterlin paradox does not exist in Indonesia because income has positive impact on happiness. Satisfaction on works, financial, family harmony, and leisure time also have significant effect on happiness. Satisfaction on family harmony is the most important factor than others. From demographic variables, it was known that happiness is not different across gender, household head, and low education people. People who are married, live in urban areas, live outside Java and Bali islands, and have more children are found happier. Happiness-age relationship indicates U-shaped curve. Happiness tends to decrease over time until people reach 51 years old. For all three level of happiness, some predictors do not have significant marginal effect on happiness namely relative income, gender, low education level, and trust to neighbors. Meanwhile the variables of household head and number of infant are not robust.

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“…Michalos (2008), Chen (2012) and Cunado & de Garcia (2012) argue that education level does not affect happiness directly. It has indirect channel through network (social capital) or through self-confidence and self-estimation.…”

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The Effect of Income, Health, Education, and Social Capital on Happiness in Indonesia

Rahayu

Harmadi

2016

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“…Some form of education is of course a near-universal phenomenon, but the extent varies considerably across people and populations. There is reasonably good evidence that higher levels of education are longitudinally associated with higher levels of happiness and life satisfaction (79)(80)(81). Although cross-sectional analyses that control for many covariates at once sometimes suggest no association, or even a negative association (80), such analyses typically control for income, employment, and marital status, which may be the primary pathways.…”

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“…Although cross-sectional analyses that control for many covariates at once sometimes suggest no association, or even a negative association (80), such analyses typically control for income, employment, and marital status, which may be the primary pathways. Longitudinal analyses that take this temporal ordering into account suggest an effect of education on higher happiness and life satisfaction through these pathways (79,80). Education is a strong cross-sectional predictor of health (82,83), but the extent to which this is causal is debated.…”

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On the promotion of human flourishing

VanderWeele

2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and outcomes, certainly including mental and physical health, but also encompassing happiness and life satisfaction, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships. The empirical literature from longitudinal, experimental, and quasiexperimental studies is reviewed in attempt to identify major determinants of human flourishing, broadly conceived. Measures of human flourishing are proposed. Discussion is given to the implications of a broader conception of human flourishing, and of the research reviewed, for policy, and for future research in the biomedical and social sciences.flourishing | well-being | happiness | family | religion

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“…Because the differences of the happiness feelings are relevant with the factors of individual knowledge structure, social position, income and so on, the happiness feelings are different from group to group in the same area [5]. Therefore, the weighted average method can be used for representing the general happiness membership for various groups in an area.…”

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Study of Quantitative Model for Maslow’s View of Humanity Happiness

Wei¹,

Xie²,

Hong³

2016

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Maslow's view of Humanity Happiness argues that people feel happy when their needs are satisfied in a certain level. For exploring the quantitative evaluation methods of humanity happiness, firstly, based on the theories of Humanity Happiness and Fuzzy Sets, the concept "need-satisfied membership" is proposed to describe subjective feelings of individual happiness quantitatively. Secondly, a comprehensive happiness membership indicator system is constructed. Its indicator weights can be computed based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. And then the individual comprehensive happiness can be analyzed quantitatively. Furthermore, the general happiness membership function model as a more scientific measurement method is proposed for quantitatively analyzing the happiness of specific people in specific areas.

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Does Education Affect Happiness? Evidence for Spain

Cited by 211 publications

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The Effect of Income, Health, Education, and Social Capital on Happiness in Indonesia

The Effect of Income, Health, Education, and Social Capital on Happiness in Indonesia

On the promotion of human flourishing

Study of Quantitative Model for Maslow’s View of Humanity Happiness

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