The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General … Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong … gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or parental activities affect only female life satisfaction, males …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …: for a given number of years in poverty, satisfaction is lower when the years are linked together. As such, poverty …

an aggregation based on how individual dimensions of welfare relate to average life satisfaction across regions, which …

Using data from surveys of life satisfaction, evidence has been presented that European citizens' subjective well … additional variables in life satisfaction regressions. The paper finds that people care about growth and employment on the one …