Donald Lien, Yue Hu, and Long Liu, "Subjective Well-Being and Income:
A Reexamination of Satiation using Regression Kink Model with an
Unknown Threshold", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 32, No. 2,
2017, pp. 463-469.

This paper uses the data set that appeared in the following article:

  Stevenson, Betsey, and Justin Wolfers, 2013. "Subjective Well-Being
  and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?" American Economic
  Review, 103(3): 598-604. Their data set and Stata programs are
  available at

  http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.3.598

To be specific, the data set used in our paper is WVS_macro.dta. It is
a Stata data file of the World Values Survey data, which has life
satisfaction as the measure of subject well-being. It has 93 counties
over 5 wave years which comprises 226 observations. Following
Stevenson and Wolfers (2013), nationally nonrepresentative countries
are dropped. There is a missing value for the variable sat_z in the
wave year 1994-99. This missing value is denoted by a "." in the Stata
data file.

Variable definitions:

  1. cty               country identifier

  2. wave              wave year identifier

  3. nonrepresentative nonrepresentative country identifier

  4. sat_z             a z-score measure of life satisfaction

  5. hap_z             a z-score measure of happiness

  6. lgdp              logarithm of GDP per capita

In our Appendix, we also check two other data sets, Pew_macro.dta and
ISSP_macro.dta, in Stevenson and Wolfers (2013). In these data sets,
variables are the same as defined as above.

The three .dta files are zipped in the file sw-dta.zip.

Long Liu
Associate Professor
Economics Department
College of Business
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX, USA
long.liu [AT] utsa.edu