Communications in Humanities and Social Sciences
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): CHSS

Giving more enhances your happiness: Evidence from Indonesia

Radikal Yuda Utama (Australian National University)
Herman Palani (Universitas Gadjah Mada)
Ahmad Zufar Rabbani (Universitas Gadjah Mada)

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07 Aug 2021

Abstract

Previous studies revealed that consuming activities and spending money to meet needs can improve individuals’ happiness. Our study showed that spending money, not for personal needs also has a big impact on individuals’ well-being. We used 26,464 observations of 4th  and 5th  waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) to predict the expenditures for non-personal needs (known as prosocial expenditure) on one's subjective well-being. The estimation result of the probit model showed that pro-social expenditure had a positive correlation with subjective well-being. On average, those who spend more on charity are happier than people who spend less. We also found that prosocial expenditure among Muslim and non-Muslim observations had different effects on happiness and life satisfaction.

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Komunitas Ilmuwan dan Profesional Muslim Indonesia

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Religion Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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