Too educated to be happy? An investigation into the relationship between education and subjective well-being

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/13835 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/13835 http://eprints.org/relation/isCoversheetVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/13835 archive 351 disk0/00/01/16/74 2016-01-15 08:54:17 2021-08-27 17:25:32 2016-01-15 08:54:17 monograph show 2 Strießnig E 1862 0000-0001-5419-9498 Too educated to be happy? An investigation into the relationship between education and subjective well-being pub iis_pop prog_pop While education has played a strong role in the ancient debate on the necessary preconditions for the good life, the contemporary literature on subjective well-being has not paid much attention to the possibility of education having an independent effect on happiness. Typically, education is mentioned only as having indirect effects, e.g., through its effect on income and wealth, employment status, health and mortality, marriage success, or as a proxy for socioconomic status. Also, the view that education - like income - mainly raises aspirations and therefore leads to lower levels of happiness is widespread in the literature, mostly without empirical evidence. Using data from the last five waves of the World Value Survey, the goal of this paper is to comprehensively study the empirical evidence by using logistic regression techniques to shed more light on the neglected role of education in happiness differentials. The results suggest that the relationship beteen education and happiness is distinct from the relationship between income and happiness. While there is evidence that higher income does not go hand in hand with higher happiness after a certain point, there is no evidence of a similar levelling off in the relationship between education and happiness. 2015-05 published IR-15-015 IR-15-015 299 public interim_report IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria 43 FALSE info:eu-repo/semantics/book