This study explores the relationship between income and happiness using data from Taiwan. It also proposes a two …-stage estimation method for studying the macroeconomics of happiness. The study finds that while personal income has a strong positive … effect on individual happiness, national income fails to have any significant effect in either the short run or the long run …

German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to … nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …

British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by …

of changing employment status from unemployed to employed. Studying life satisfaction yields similar results. Health …Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study … persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogenous to individual outcomes. This approach …

health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent …Der Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Covid-19-Pandemie und zweier Lockdowns auf die psychische Gesundheit und … das subjektive Wohlbefinden von Beschäftigten in Deutschland. Hierzu wird mit Daten eines monatlichen Panels von …

. Contrary to previous research, we find no health impact when TV consumption increases. For life satisfaction, we even find … economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness … experiment in West Germany, where people in geographically restricted areas received commercial TV via terrestrial frequencies …

-being, in particular with life satisfaction, as well as mental and physical health. The effects are strongest for residents who … are older, accounting for up to a third of the size of the effect of being unemployed on life satisfaction. Using data …

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …

-being as well as the effect of objective life circumstances using the WHO Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Our …