How happy are you? It depends on when asked …

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorLivelihoods and Food Security Fund, Myanmaren
cg.coverage.countryMyanmar
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MM
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierSalauddin Tauseef: 0000-0002-9102-896X
cg.creator.identifierIsabel Lambrecht: 0000-0003-1709-6611
cg.creator.identifierBart Minten: 0000-0002-2183-1845
cg.creator.identifierDEREK HEADEY: 0000-0003-2476-5131
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136714en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Transformation Strategies
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Myanmar Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number37en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorTauseef, Salauddinen
dc.contributor.authorLambrecht, Isabel B.en
dc.contributor.authorMinten, Barten
dc.contributor.authorHeadey, Derek D.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T12:09:08Zen
dc.date.available2024-03-14T12:09:08Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140234
dc.titleHow happy are you? It depends on when asked …en
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
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/p15738coll2.136714.en
dcterms.extent22 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Myanmar SSP Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2023-05-25
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/136714en
dcterms.subjecteconomic analysisen
dcterms.subjectmethodsen
dcterms.subjectsurveysen
dcterms.subjectevaluationen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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