m g; Mohammad Nasr Isfahani
Abstract
Family, which establishes the personality and intellectual values of individuals in a community, can have a vital role in creating happiness in individuals. In this study, using the statistical data of 11 countries with more than 20 thousand dollars per capita income and 25 countries with per capita ...
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Family, which establishes the personality and intellectual values of individuals in a community, can have a vital role in creating happiness in individuals. In this study, using the statistical data of 11 countries with more than 20 thousand dollars per capita income and 25 countries with per capita income below 20 thousand dollars, over the period 1981-2014, the relationship between the family's importance in life and happiness has been studied. Per capita income, unemployment, life expectancy, and income inequality variables are entered as a control variable in the panel data regression. The results show that in both groups of the country, unemployment and income inequality variables have negative and significant effects, and variables of family importance, life expectancy and income have a positive and significant effect on happiness perception. Also, the family importance in life in countries with low per capita income, as compared to countries with high per capita income, hasn’t different impacts on perceptions of happiness. Therefore, the positive impact of the cultural value of the family's importance in life on the perception of happiness is not dependent on the promotion of per capita income in a country. Per capita income does not count as a catalyst for having a greater impact on the family's importance in life on the feeling of happiness.
sahebeh mohammadinmansor; abolghasem golkhandan; mojtabi khansari; davod golkhandan
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For many economists, an increase in happiness in society will lead to a rise in the level of productivity, and consequently economic growth and higher welfare. Thus, they seek to find factors that boost the level of happiness in society. Accordingly, in this article we decided to find the socio-economic ...
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For many economists, an increase in happiness in society will lead to a rise in the level of productivity, and consequently economic growth and higher welfare. Thus, they seek to find factors that boost the level of happiness in society. Accordingly, in this article we decided to find the socio-economic factors affecting happiness. For this purpose, the income per capita, unemployment rate, life expectancy, mean years of schooling and religious restriction variables and GLS estimator and cross-sectional data in 61 countries in 2010 were used. The results showed a linear relationship between per capita income and happiness, so that with the increase of income, happiness increases. The unemployment rate has a negative effect and the average years of schooling, at a significantly lower level than othervariables in the model, has a positive impact on happiness. Increased government restrictions and social hostilities, as indexes for measuring religious restrictions in communities, were associated with less happiness. A general conclusion from the analysis of socio-economic factors affecting happiness can be that richer countries, with lower unemployment rates, less religious restrictions and higher life expectancy and education, are happier.
