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 …

' educational level have a negative effect on experienced life satisfaction …

This paper analyses whether the aggregation of individual happiness scores to a National Happiness Index can still be … Happiness Index. The answer to this investigation is clear-cut: as soon as the National Happiness Index has become a policy goal …, it can no longer be trusted to reflect people's true happiness. Rather, the Index will be systematically distorted due to …

previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A … higher income level raises happiness, however, only to a small extent. …

enjoy the corresponding procedural utility. Utility is measured by individuals reported subjective well-being or happiness …

individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …