Is Happiness Inequality Immune to Income Inequality?

Is Happiness Inequality Immune to Income Inequality? New Evidence through Instrument-Effect-Corrected Standard Deviations

This is the documentation page for "Delhey, Jan and Ulrich Kohler (in press): Is Happiness Inequality Immune to Income Inequality? New Evidence through Instrument-Effect-Corrected Standard Deviations.

On this page you may found all Stata do-files for the analyses in the paper.

With the master do-file you can replicate all analyses of the paper. For this you need to download all do-files.

In what follows you find the complete list of the do-files. They appear in the order of their making during the preparation of the paper.

Initial Analyses


wvs5_inequality.do Pre-Work
ansimulation.do Simulation Study
anwvsieff.do Analysis of IEFF-corrected standard deviations

Post Social Science Research Reviews


annormal.do Checks for Normality assumption
anwvsmaxd.do SD devided my maxSD
anwvsieff2.do Analysis using both corrections
ansimulation2.do ansimulation with reduced set of figures
grmaxsd.do Figure of functions for max-SD correction
ankalmijn.do Re-Analysis Kalmijns distributions using max-SD
anwvsieff3.do Analysis including producint a table for rank-changes