Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the socialsciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness.Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeingis often taken as a proxy measure for...

The paper addresses two questions. First, is item nonresponse (INR) a precursor of panelattrition (UNR), as predicted by the theory of a latent cooperation continuum, or is theinterrelation of another type? Second, are the results in models of item nonresponse behavioraffected by a selectivity...