Effects of college education on demonstrated happiness in the United States

Pavlo Buryi and Scott Gilbert

Applied Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 21, issue 18, 1253-1256

Abstract: Among the many documented benefits of a college education is a higher level of self-reported happiness. The present work considers instead the level of demonstrated happiness and unhappiness within groups, the latter proxied by the conditional probability of suicide within groups having a college education and those without. Those with college are not happier for it, in these terms, and actually have slightly higher rates of suicide than those without college, based on a recent US data.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.920470

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