panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life … 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 …

poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

this paper we assess for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set from 1991-2008 how life satisfaction interacts … claims for the benefits of well-being on mortality: while life satisfaction generally predicts longer survival in the data … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …

individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest …

in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …