health predicts higher happiness by 1.72 point or 0.82 of a standard deviation, more than four times the happiness difference … of changing employment status from unemployed to employed. Studying life satisfaction yields similar results. Health … improvements predict substantial increases in individual happiness. …

Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction … reduce life satisfaction across Europe. Building upon these results, we quantify the monetary value of improvements in public … safety and its valuation in terms of individual well-being. The loss in satisfaction for victimized individuals corresponds …

This paper uses panel data on life satisfaction of about 40,000 individuals in Germany from 1994 to 2013 to analyze the … satisfaction in terms of incidence, intensity and in comparison to income poverty. We find a negative and significant effect of … satisfaction. The impact we find is beyond the effect of mere income poverty. We classify measures of fuel poverty into several …

satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas … of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By …

An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those …