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education. In some regions, there is a larger happiness gap for more educated women and
men, and in other regions, the reverse is true.
What about religion? The average differences in female-male happiness by a
country’s primary religion are presented below in Table 2.5. A religion is designated as
primary if 50% or more of the population practiced a specific religion based on the
Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) World Fact Book (2010). The “other” category
Table 2.5 Average Female-Male Difference in
Life Satisfaction by Religion
Primary religion Mean difference N
Buddhism 0.15 5
[0.08]
Catholicism -0.02 33
[0.03]
Christianity 0.02 18
[0.03]
Islam 0.11 11
[0.06]
Other 0.21 6
[0.11]
Total 0.04 73
[0.02]
The primary religion is determined by whether the CIA
World Fact Book (2010) stated that at least 50% of the
population was a specific religion. Other includes
religions that did not fall into one of the four categories
and countries without a primary religion. Standard
errors in parentheses.
includes countries without a primary religion or with a primary religion other than
Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, or Islam. Women are the happiest relative to men
83
Object Description
| Title | Essays on health and well-being |
| Author | Zweig, Jacqueline Smith |
| Author email | smith2@usc.edu; jackiesmith04@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Economics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-23 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 26 Apr. 2012. |
| Date published | 2012-04-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Easterlin, Richard A. Ham, John C. |
| Advisor (committee member) | Melguizo, Tatiana |
| Abstract | This dissertation is comprised of three chapters that use microeconometric techniques to investigate the factors that affect people’s well-being. In the first two chapters, well-being is defined as life satisfaction or health satisfaction. The first chapter explores how the movement from socialism to capitalism affected the life satisfaction and health satisfaction of East Germans relative to West Germans after reunification. The second chapter examines whether women are happier, less happy, or equally happy as men in countries at various stages of development. The third chapter examines whether pollution affects the academic performance of school children; their academic performance and achievements will have important implications for their future well-being. |
| Keyword | happiness; well-being |
| Geographic subject | Germany |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1990/2010; 2002/2008 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3782 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Zweig, Jacqueline Smith |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Zweig-4500 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Zweig-4500.pdf |
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| Title | Page 92 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 83 education. In some regions, there is a larger happiness gap for more educated women and men, and in other regions, the reverse is true. What about religion? The average differences in female-male happiness by a country’s primary religion are presented below in Table 2.5. A religion is designated as primary if 50% or more of the population practiced a specific religion based on the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) World Fact Book (2010). The “other” category Table 2.5 Average Female-Male Difference in Life Satisfaction by Religion Primary religion Mean difference N Buddhism 0.15 5 [0.08] Catholicism -0.02 33 [0.03] Christianity 0.02 18 [0.03] Islam 0.11 11 [0.06] Other 0.21 6 [0.11] Total 0.04 73 [0.02] The primary religion is determined by whether the CIA World Fact Book (2010) stated that at least 50% of the population was a specific religion. Other includes religions that did not fall into one of the four categories and countries without a primary religion. Standard errors in parentheses. includes countries without a primary religion or with a primary religion other than Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, or Islam. Women are the happiest relative to men 83 |
