2018 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Global study of happiness
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18K01645
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
小野 浩 一橋大学, 大学院経営管理研究科, 教授 (80747981)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | happiness / well-being / international comparison |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Highlights of 2018 include the following:
(i) Project member, Jordi Quoidbach, visited Tokyo, and we brainstormed over the project for a week. We started to run statistical models and to test our hypotheses. (ii) I visited the U.S. to work with project member, Christopher Browning. We discussed and wrote down programs to conduct further statistical modeling. (iii) I completed the international project on International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), and co-authored a 44-page chapter on "social justice and well-being" which was published by Cambridge University Press. (iv) I worked on a project about happiness in Japan, with Francesco Sarracino and Kelsey O'Connor, who are two econometricians from the National Institute of Statistics in Luxembourg.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Our statistical analyses requires (3-level) multi-level modeling, with individuals (level 1) nested within time (level 2) nested within countries (level 3). Data preparation has been more challenging than anticipated as there are 1.5 million observations across 15 years and 176 countries. We spent much of 2018 identifying and collecting explanatory variables at the country-level which have high explanatory power and at the same time have broad coverage of all 176 countries. These variables were then merged back into the main dataset, and prepared for multi-level analyses. The data are now in good shape for analyses.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2019, I will arrange meetings with our project members to brainstorm, and to conduct statistical analyses as a group. We plan to draft our research topic of "inequality and happiness" by the end of the year.
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| Causes of Carryover |
We used less than our allocated budget for 2018 as we travelled less than expected. We plan to arrange meetings during the year, and will be using up more of our budget for 2019.
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| Remarks |
From 2105 to 2018, I was involved in the international project, International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). IPSP final report was published in 2018 as 3 volume set from Cambridge University Press.
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[Journal Article] Robust, replicable, and theoretically-grounded: A response to Brown and Coyne’s (2017) commentary on the relationship between emodiversity and health2018
Author(s)
Quoidbach, J., Mikolajczak, M., Gruber, J., Kotsou, I., Kogan, A., & Norton, M. I.
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Journal Title
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Volume: 147
Pages: 451-458
DOI
Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
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