Giving more enhances your happiness: Evidence from Indonesia
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چکیده
Previous studies revealed that consuming activities and spending money to meet needs can improve individuals’ happiness. Our study showed money, not for personal also has a big impact on well-being. We used 26,464 observations of 4th 5th waves the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) predict expenditures non-personal (known as prosocial expenditure) one's subjective The estimation result probit model pro-social expenditure had positive correlation with On average, those who spend more charity are happier than people less. found among Muslim non-Muslim different effects happiness life satisfaction.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communications in Humanities and Social Sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2775-2569', '2807-5390']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21924/chss.1.1.2021.8