Happiness in Eastern Europe



testing-down restriction in the last line of Table 2 would not be rejected at the chosen 1%
significant level.


Table 2: Explaining happiness (ordered logit model)

General model

Reduced model

Explanatory variables

Coeff.      SE HCSE

Coeff.      SE HCSE


Country dummies:

Czech Republic

Slovak Republic

Reference

-0.48

**

Slovenia

-0.91

**

Hungary

-1.47

**

Poland

-1.82

**

Romania

-1.90

**

Bulgaria

-2.21

**

Age effect:

Age

-0.03

**

Age squared

0.0004

**

Gender effect:

Female

-0.04

Marital status:

Single

Reference

Married

0.35

**


0.15

0.1

5

-0.39

**

0.14

0.14

0.11

0.1

-0.86

**

0.11

1

0.11

0.11

0.11

-1.43

**

0.11    0.10

0.12

0.12

-1.69

**

0.11     0.12

0.17

0.17

-1.82

**

0.11    0.10

0.16

0.1

-2.16

**

0.11

6

0.10

0.01

0.01

-0.04

**

0.01     0.01

0.0001

0.0001

0.0005

**

0.0001 0.0001

0.06

0.0

6

0.09

0.09

0.45

**

0.07    0.07




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