We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

This study examines the role of socio-demographic determinants on individual’s level of happiness. Primary survey data … unhappy or very unhappy feelings. The rest of the factors such as income, education, age, gender, and employment status are … found to have insignificant effects on happiness. Several policy implications can be recommended based on the outcomes. …

of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) carried out by the Bank of Italy. Probit, OLS regressions and …

of social capital on individual self-reported health for eight countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States … consistently estimate the impact of social capital on health. We attempt to circumvent the endogeneity problems by using … of trust is positively and significantly correlated with health, either in pooling estimation or when we rely on IV …

This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved … (GSOEP) we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide evidence that selection … corrections are necessary. Good health leads to higher wages for men, while there appears to be no significant effect for women …

The Economics of Happiness already recognizes how procedures affect the evaluation of outcomes, although this has only … by linking happiness and procedural rationality, focusing on ‘happiness for choice’ (the individual’s perceived … satisfaction after the decision making process). Simon’s model shows the need for defining aspirations whose values are adapted to …

The fact that happiness does not increase as income increases (Easterlin Paradox) has puzzled a number of scholars for … a number of decades. The latest research on this topic concludes that happiness increases with an increment in income in … income for a society completely following Islamic code of life since it, fully or partially, delinks happiness from income …

the picture. In terms of income-happiness relationship, it suggests that income is very important for happiness up to a … certain level of income. For higher income levels this effect becomes much weaker, given that the satisfaction of non … income and happiness for low income households group, and a non-significant relationship between income and happiness for …