This study discusses and employs dynamic panel data to investigate life satisfaction. A key result is that … lagged life satisfaction has a small, positive and significant effect on current life satisfaction. A related key benefit of …

The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive … disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and life satisfaction. The reduction in life satisfaction experienced by … individuals’ thoughts about the future substantially increases the explanatory power of standard life satisfaction models. Life …

This study is an investigation into relative overeducation and life satisfaction using British longitudinal data. The … between being overeducated and life satisfaction, and a key reason for this relates to comparisons (both with others, and the … notion. In addition, evidence is presented that income compensates somewhat for the loss of life satisfaction incurred by the …

British Household Panel Survey, it is demonstrated that happiness is largely (but not wholly) contemporaneous. This can help … reflected in self-reported life satisfaction scores. This contemporaneous finding also explains other results in the literature …

This investigation discusses and employs dynamic panel analysis to provide new insights into the concept of happiness …, and also because it takes into account dynamics omitted by more standard panel data estimation methods like fixed effects …. Using the British Household Panel Survey, it is demonstrated that happiness is largely (but not wholly) contemporaneous …

This paper provides a sustained introduction for the use of dynamic panel methods when analysing life satisfaction. As … to treat variables as exogenous or endogenous, important for happiness, and can generate both contemporaneous and long … age ranges and countries, is that happiness is largely contemporaneous although there is a small, persistent effect of the …

This study is an investigation into relative overeducation and life satisfaction using British longitudinal data. The … hypothesis is that there is a negative relationship between being overeducated and life satisfaction. Overeducation is measured …

This study investigates in three steps whether there is an association between happiness and living in one of Europe … finds a negative and statistically significant effect on happiness of living in one of Europe’s capitals. The second step is … the addition of socio-economic controls which (overall) increases the happiness penalty associated with living in a …