The relationship between happiness and health: evidence from Italy

Fabio Sabatini ()
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Fabio Sabatini: Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione e del Non Profit, Postal: Faculty of Economics Forlì – P.le della Vittoria 15 – 47121 Forlì – Tel. 0543.62327 – Fax 0543.374676, ecofo.aiccon@unibo.it, http://www.aiccon.it, http://www.aiccon.it

No 91-2011, AICCON Working Papers from Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione e del Non Profit

Abstract: We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample (n = 817) of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011. Based on probit regressions, instrumental variables estimates and structural equations modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect to the rest of Italy. As expected, this scales down the role of social capital.

Keywords: cooperative enterprises; happiness; health; instrumental variables; Italy; life satisfaction; non-profit; social capital; structural equations modelling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2011-08-26
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