Happiness and Public Expenditure: Evidence from a Panel Analysis

Kamal Kasmaoui and Othmane Bourhaba

Working Papers from HAL

Abstract: The present study examines empirically the relationship between Happiness and public spending. We use a panel data from 2006 to 2015 for about 132 countries. We first estimated a Pooled, fixed effect and finally a GMM model to deal with the endogeneity problem. Our main findings suggest, first, that high levels of public expenditure are associated with greater Happiness around the world. Second, as expected, social support, Healthy life expectancy, Freedom to make life choices and confidence in national government contribute significantly to Happiness.

Keywords: Happiness; Public choice; Government spending; GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-02625987v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-02625987v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Happiness and Public Expenditure: Evidence from a Panel Analysis (2017)
Working Paper: Happiness and Public Expenditure: Evidence from a panel analysis (2017)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02625987

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().