Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32645 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Economics and Evolution No. 0904
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
We use a panel vector autoregressions model to examine the coevolution of changes in happiness and changes in income, health, marital status as well as employment status for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set. This technique allows us to simultaneously analyze the impact of the aforementioned factors on each other. We find that increases in happiness are associated with subsequent increases in income, marriage, employment, and health variables, while increases in the these life-domain variables (except health) tend to be followed by decreases in happiness in subsequent periods, suggesting adaptation dynamics in all domains. These findings are quite robust to different model specifications.
Subjects: 
Happiness dynamics
vector autoregressions
subjective well-being
BHPS
JEL: 
I31
D63
C33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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