The role of sociability and relational goods has been generally neglected in the formulation of standard textbook economic preferences. Our level and first difference panel estimates show that relational goods have significant and positive effects on self declared life satisfaction, net of the impact of standard controls. The estimation of a panel GMM VAR system shows that such effects remain significant when the inverse causality nexus is taken into account.
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