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Is Being Satisfied Making You Wealthy and Wise? A Study of the Effects of Well-Being at the City-Level

Black, Katie Jo
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1329242946

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2011, Master of Arts in Economics, Youngstown State University, Lariccia School of Accounting and Finance.
The study presented here researches subjective well-being, wages, educational attainment, and how well-being affects both wages and educational attainment through reverse causality. From Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Survey, a total of 187 metropolitan statistical areas were observed and 152 of these cities were used in our regression analysis for completeness reasons. This study adds to the literature of determinants of well-being, wage, and educational attainment, as well as the literature of approaches to endogeneity issues, and identifying and correcting reverse causality between variables in a system of equations through the use of two and three-stage-leastsquares methods. We found that well-being had a significant, but negative, effect on wage and a significantly positive effect on educational attainment. From this result, we approached the well-being equation with a two-stage-least-squares method in order to determine if the relationship between wage, well-being, and educational attainment were causing biased results when using ordinary least squares methodology. It was found that there was bias and a two-stage-least-squares method was helpful in correcting for this issue. We suggest that further research into how well-being affects other variables is important and necessary.
Joseph Palardy, PhD (Advisor)
Albert Sumell, PhD (Committee Member)
Tomi Ovaska, PhD (Committee Member)
64 p.
Economics; Statistics
Well-being; Reverse causality; Income; Education

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  • Black, K. J. (2011). Is Being Satisfied Making You Wealthy and Wise? A Study of the Effects of Well-Being at the City-Level [Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1329242946

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Black, Katie Jo. Is Being Satisfied Making You Wealthy and Wise? A Study of the Effects of Well-Being at the City-Level. 2011. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1329242946.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Black, Katie Jo. "Is Being Satisfied Making You Wealthy and Wise? A Study of the Effects of Well-Being at the City-Level." Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1329242946

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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