The Effect of Education on Happiness, Self-Acceptance, and Family Harmony (Empirical Evidence from Indonesia)

Education plays a crucial role in determining the quality of life through economic returns and subjective well-being. However, almost no previous research has examined how education affects well-being indicators beyond happiness. To address this gap, study used Ordinary Least Squares Ordered Probit technique to investigate effect on happiness, self-acceptance, family harmony. Using recent microdata from Statistics Indonesia 2021 empirical results reveal that positively The remained statistically significant even after incorporating socioeconomic individual characteristics such as income, gender, age, marital status, home ownership, household size, area classification, health leisure time. result highlights individuals with higher levels reported greater satisfaction harmony than those lower education. Although more half magnitude decreases variables, direct