Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the …

effect of hurricane risk on individual self-reported life satisfaction. In order to do so we combine geo-referenced survey … satisfaction in a two-way fixed effects model. Our findings indicate that regions with comparatively high hurricane risk report … significantly lower levels of life satisfaction than their counterparts in less hurricane-prone regions, even after controlling for …