happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We … investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits …, we find that happiness extends life expectancy. 10 percent increase in happiness decreases probability of death by four …

self-reported happiness as a channel through which sunshine affects financial variables. I examine the influence of … happiness on risk-taking behavior by instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine. I find that happy people appear …

This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio …-Economic Panel. Exploiting the unexplained cross-sectional variation in individual happiness (residuals) in 1984 to eliminate the … neighborhood, and extend more help to others. Residual happiness appears to be an indicator of optimism, and has an inverse U …

happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are …

higher measured levels of happiness, or life satisfaction. The result seems to be consistent across both countries and time … conducive to a higher level of happiness. We test this simple idea with conventional OLS modelling using life satisfaction data …

Better understanding of the relationship between happiness and economic behavior may help design economic policies such … as tax and retirement policies, and regulate the timing of macroeconomic announcements. I examine the impact of happiness …-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest that happier people save more, spend …

happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that …

happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently …