Robust ranking of happiness outcomes: a median regression perspective

• Main Authors: Chen, Le-Yu, Oparina, Ekaterina, Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Srisuma, Sorawoot
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Economic development; Median Regression; Mixed Integer Optimization
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160031
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Ordered probit and logit models have been frequently used to estimate the mean ranking of happiness outcomes (and other ordinal data) across groups. However, it has been recently highlighted that such ranking may not be identified in most happiness applications. We suggest researchers focus on media...