Sleep duration and life satisfaction

Piper, Alan

Sleep duration and life satisfaction

International Review of Economics, 2016, vol. 63, issue 4, No 1, 305-325

Abstract: Abstract Sleep is an important part of life. Despite this importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an important factor for life satisfaction and, furthermore, that maximal life satisfaction is associated with about 8 h of sleep on a typical weekday. This figure represents, on average, one hour more than people currently sleep for: a result that is robust to different subsamples, and found via two common estimation techniques, one of which controls for individual heterogeneity including different sleep needs.

Keywords: Sleep; Life satisfaction; GSOEP; Fixed effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D10 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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