Height and Happiness in a Developing Country

Kitae Sohn ()

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, vol. 17, issue 1, 23 pages

Abstract: This paper analyzes the Indonesian Family Life Survey to estimate the relationship between height and happiness in a developing country, Indonesia. This paper finds that tall men and women are happier than their short counterparts and that the magnitude of the relationship is large. More important, a parsimonious set of channels is identified to substantially explain the relationship between height and happiness: education and earnings for men, and education and relative position of earnings for women. However, for men but not for women, height still exhibits a non-negligible relationship with happiness even after controlling for an extensive array of covariates. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

Keywords: Height; Happiness; Developing country; Indonesian Family Life Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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