How happy are you? It depends on when asked …
Subjective well-being measures are increasingly applied in quantitative economic analyses intended to elicit non-monetary wellbeing of individuals. However, the subjective nature of this evaluation means that measurement and comparison may be confounded by differences in context or may be sensitive...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2023
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| author | Tauseef, Salauddin Lambrecht, Isabel B. Minten, Bart Headey, Derek D. |
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| description | Subjective well-being measures are increasingly applied in quantitative economic analyses intended to elicit non-monetary wellbeing of individuals. However, the subjective nature of this evaluation means that measurement and comparison may be confounded by differences in context or may be sensitive to the implementation modality. We use two rounds of a large-scale panel phone survey data from Myanmar to explore whether the randomized placement of a happiness module – either at the beginning or at the end of the survey – affects respondents’ answers. Respondents who were asked the happiness module at the end are more likely to be happy – an increase of 7 percentage points – compared to those who are asked at the beginning of the survey. This result is consistent using different models and robust to inclusion of enumerator fixed effects and other enumerator and survey characteristics. A related question on worry in the same module yields similar findings. Results also sustain over the two rounds of survey in which we conducted the experiment. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1402342025-11-06T07:21:07Z How happy are you? It depends on when asked … Tauseef, Salauddin Lambrecht, Isabel B. Minten, Bart Headey, Derek D. economic analysis methods surveys evaluation Subjective well-being measures are increasingly applied in quantitative economic analyses intended to elicit non-monetary wellbeing of individuals. However, the subjective nature of this evaluation means that measurement and comparison may be confounded by differences in context or may be sensitive to the implementation modality. We use two rounds of a large-scale panel phone survey data from Myanmar to explore whether the randomized placement of a happiness module – either at the beginning or at the end of the survey – affects respondents’ answers. Respondents who were asked the happiness module at the end are more likely to be happy – an increase of 7 percentage points – compared to those who are asked at the beginning of the survey. This result is consistent using different models and robust to inclusion of enumerator fixed effects and other enumerator and survey characteristics. A related question on worry in the same module yields similar findings. Results also sustain over the two rounds of survey in which we conducted the experiment. 2023-05-25 2024-03-14T12:09:08Z 2024-03-14T12:09:08Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140234 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Tauseef, Salauddin; Lambrecht, Isabel; Minten, Bart; and Headey, Derek D. 2023. How happy are you? It depends on when asked … Myanmar SSP Working Paper 37. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136714. |
| spellingShingle | economic analysis methods surveys evaluation Tauseef, Salauddin Lambrecht, Isabel B. Minten, Bart Headey, Derek D. How happy are you? It depends on when asked … |
| title | How happy are you? It depends on when asked … |
| title_full | How happy are you? It depends on when asked … |
| title_fullStr | How happy are you? It depends on when asked … |
| title_full_unstemmed | How happy are you? It depends on when asked … |
| title_short | How happy are you? It depends on when asked … |
| title_sort | how happy are you it depends on when asked |
| topic | economic analysis methods surveys evaluation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140234 |
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