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 …

aspects of a person's wellbeing: functionings, happiness and capabilities. Results indicate that the production of activities … depends significantly inter alia on education, health and gender; that happiness depends on a wide variety of activities and …