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Sleep duration and life satisfaction

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    (Europa-Universität Flensburg)

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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.

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  • Alan T. Piper, 2016. "Sleep duration and life satisfaction," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 63(4), pages 305-325, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inrvec:v:63:y:2016:i:4:d:10.1007_s12232-016-0256-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s12232-016-0256-1
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    Keywords

    Sleep; Life satisfaction; GSOEP; Fixed effects;
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    JEL classification:

    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being

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