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 …

Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard ordered response models, the … study of whether the income effect depend on a person’s happiness. In this paper we pinpoint the shortcomings of standard … probability effects by design, and therefore limit the analysis of distributional aspects of a change in income, that is, the …