Mello, Luiz de; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: Kyklos 62 (2009) 4, pp. 594-610
This paper uses several waves of the General Social Survey (GSS) including data for up to about 32,000 individuals to estimate the effect of a variety of health conditions on happiness. We show that healthy people are in general happier than individuals with poor health, controlling for a number...