How happy are you? It depends on when asked …

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten_US
cg.contributor.donorLivelihoods and Food Security Fund, Myanmaren_US
cg.coverage.countryMyanmaren_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MMen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierSalauddin Tauseef: 0000-0002-9102-896Xen_US
cg.creator.identifierIsabel Lambrecht: 0000-0003-1709-6611en_US
cg.creator.identifierBart Minten: 0000-0002-2183-1845en_US
cg.creator.identifierDEREK HEADEY: 0000-0003-2476-5131en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136714en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Uniten_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Transformation Strategiesen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Myanmar Strategy Support Programen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.number37en_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorTauseef, Salauddinen_US
dc.contributor.authorLambrecht, Isabelen_US
dc.contributor.authorMinten, Barten_US
dc.contributor.authorHeadey, Derek D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T12:09:08Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-03-14T12:09:08Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140234en_US
dc.titleHow happy are you? It depends on when asked …en_US
dcterms.abstractSubjective well-being measures are increasingly applied in quantitative economic analyses intended to elicit non-monetary wellbeing of individuals. However, the subjective nature of this evaluation means that measurement and comparison may be confounded by differences in context or may be sensitive to the implementation modality. We use two rounds of a large-scale panel phone survey data from Myanmar to explore whether the randomized placement of a happiness module – either at the beginning or at the end of the survey – affects respondents’ answers. Respondents who were asked the happiness module at the end are more likely to be happy – an increase of 7 percentage points – compared to those who are asked at the beginning of the survey. This result is consistent using different models and robust to inclusion of enumerator fixed effects and other enumerator and survey characteristics. A related question on worry in the same module yields similar findings. Results also sustain over the two rounds of survey in which we conducted the experiment.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTauseef, Salauddin; Lambrecht, Isabel; Minten, Bart; and Headey, Derek D. 2023. How happy are you? It depends on when asked … Myanmar SSP Working Paper 37. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136714en_US
dcterms.extent22 p.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfMyanmar SSP Working Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2023-05-25en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/136714en_US
dcterms.subjecteconomic analysisen_US
dcterms.subjectmethodsen_US
dcterms.subjectsurveysen_US
dcterms.subjectevaluationen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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