Inquiry into high school students’ utility function

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dc.contributor.authorJanáček, Julius
dc.contributor.authorŠťastný, Dan
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-25T13:23:05Z
dc.date.available2019-02-25T13:23:05Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstract-translatedhis study uses data from our life-satisfaction survey of 1,414 students in 11 high schools in Northern parts of Czech Republic in the spring 2017 to discover certain parts of high school students’’ utility function. This is potentially useful for audiences ranging from macro-level policy-makers to teachers to parents to the students themselves in improving the design of policies and practices that either address life-satisfaction directly or affect it indirectly by pursuing other objectives. We use ordered logit and OLS regression models in various specifications to explore how different factors of students’ life from various domains (e.g. housing, economic, lifestyle, personal) associate with their self-assessed degree (0-10 scale) of life satisfaction or happiness. The effects of independent variables were investigated both separately within their own domain, and in all-inclusive models while always controlling for gender, age and specific effects of particular schools. The results confirm quite robustly several well-established and expected effects, namely the positive effects of one’s relations to parents and friends, or one’s health conditions, and negative effects of smoking tobacco or being discriminated. The findings also reveal some relatively unestablished facts such as a large positive effect of being needed, or the negative effect of commuting time. The outright surprising results include the irrelevance of alcohol consumption (contrary to expected negative effects and in contrast to identified negative effects of tobacco consumption) or of the absolute amount of money available (contrary to expected positive effects); the positive effect of cannabis use and of being a vegan; or the partially negative effect of engaging in arts or creative activities. While the above results are not all easily turned into recommendations for students, their parents, school administrators or policy makers on how to secure a happy life of teenagers, there are a few that may go beyond the obvious: avoid smoking, consider commuting time seriously, encourage and nurture good relations. Caveats regarding external validity apply.en
dc.format17 s.cs
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dc.identifier.citationE+M. Ekonomie a Management = Economics and Management. 2018, roč. 21, č. 3, s. 57-74.cs
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2018-3-004
dc.identifier.issn2336-5604 (Online)
dc.identifier.issn1212-3609 (Print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11025/31064
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTechnická univerzita v Libercics
dc.relation.ispartofseriesE+M. Ekonomie a Management = Economics and Managementcs
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0en
dc.rights.accessopenAccessen
dc.subjectužitekcs
dc.subjectštěstícs
dc.subjectživotní spokojenostcs
dc.subjectstudentics
dc.subjectstřední školacs
dc.subjectzdravícs
dc.subjectvztahcs
dc.subjectdojížděnícs
dc.subjectpožívání návykových látekcs
dc.subject.translatedutilityen
dc.subject.translatedhappinessen
dc.subject.translatedlife satisfactionen
dc.subject.translatedstudentsen
dc.subject.translatedhigh schoolen
dc.subject.translatedhealthen
dc.subject.translatedrelationshipen
dc.subject.translatedcommutingen
dc.subject.translatedsubstance useen
dc.titleInquiry into high school students’ utility functionen
dc.typečlánekcs
dc.typearticleen
dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen

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