importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an … important factor for life satisfaction and that maximal life satisfaction is associated with about eight hours of sleep on a … lead to a higher reported satisfaction with life. …

This empirical investigation into life satisfaction, using nationally representative German panel data, finds a … standard life satisfaction models. The thoughts that individuals have about the future contribute substantially to their … current life satisfaction. In particular, the reduction in life satisfaction experienced by individuals who report being …

Well-being consists of many dimensions such as income, health and education. A society exhibits greater dependence …

paper, we summarize some recent findings with respect to geographical comparisons of income, unemployment, health and …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … increases monotonically and progressively with age. Our results are similar for alternative measures of SWB (life satisfaction …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … health we find evidence of a significant positive effect of current income on health. However, after controlling for …

, job, and pay satisfaction between those who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those … satisfaction by 0.10 standard deviations (0.15 points on a ten-point Likert scale). Positive effects last at least until one year … after the reform. Life satisfaction tends to increase particularly in the region that is overall economically less developed …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

the UK Understanding Society Innovation Panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job, health, income, leisure … and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, mode of interviewing, and location of … distribution of reported satisfaction measures, particularly for women. Results from the sort of conditional modeling used to …