World Happiness Report 2023

World Happiness Report 2023 94 Figure 3.5: Regressions of Average Life Satisfaction on Separate Components of State Effectiveness (left) and on Dummies for State Clusters (right) Coefficient from Life Satisfaction (2019) on State Type Coefficient from Life Satisfaction (2019) on State Type Special-interest State Legal Capacity Fiscal Capacity Common-interest State Absence Civil War Absence Repression Collective Capacity 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 .5 0 1.5 1 .5 0 -.5 Figure 3.6: Within-Country Spread of Life Satisfaction vs. Mean Life Satisfaction (average Cantril Ladder score), by State Clusters (unconditional) Weak States Special-interest States Common-interest States — Fitted values Diff. btw Top-half and Bottom-half Life Satisfaction (2019) = − 0 . 688 = − 0 . 663 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 5 4 3 2 St. Dev. of Life Satisfaction (2019) Avg. Life Satisfaction (2019) Avg. Life Satisfaction (2019) 4 3 2 1 = − 0 . 688 = − 0 . 663 3 4 5 6 7 8

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