TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender, religion and happiness
AU - Mookerjee, Rajen
AU - Beron, Krista
PY - 2005/10/1
Y1 - 2005/10/1
N2 - Using an infrequently used sample of 60 countries this paper attempts to gauge the importance of religion and gender on the levels of happiness across countries, after controlling for a set of quality of life variables. The results suggest that both religion which is represented by the degree of religious fractionalization, and gender as represented by the percentage of women in parliament, have important effects on the degree of happiness. Specifically the paper finds that higher levels of religious fractionalization reduce happiness, but greater representation of women in parliament robustly increase happiness levels.
AB - Using an infrequently used sample of 60 countries this paper attempts to gauge the importance of religion and gender on the levels of happiness across countries, after controlling for a set of quality of life variables. The results suggest that both religion which is represented by the degree of religious fractionalization, and gender as represented by the percentage of women in parliament, have important effects on the degree of happiness. Specifically the paper finds that higher levels of religious fractionalization reduce happiness, but greater representation of women in parliament robustly increase happiness levels.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.socec.2005.07.012
DO - 10.1016/j.socec.2005.07.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:26444533946
SN - 2214-8043
VL - 34
SP - 674
EP - 685
JO - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
JF - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
IS - 5
ER -