Does happiness pay?An exploration based on panel data from Russia

Scholars’ physical appearance, research performance, and feelings of happiness

“…Happiness seems to significantly promote work-related success (see Graham/Eggers/Sukhtankar 2004or Diener et al 2002. Our results indicate that this holds also true for scholars in regard to their research performance, but they do not suggest the reverse causation.…”

“…Happiness seems to promote work-related success as well (see Graham/Eggers/Sukhtankar 2004or Diener et al 2002. However, to the best of our knowledge, the relationship between physical appearance and research performance has not been analysed yet.…”

“…for American politicians were conducted by Todorov et al (2005), who asked participants to evaluate photographs of candidates for the U. S. Senate (2000Senate ( , 2002Senate ( , and 2004) and the House of Representatives (2002 and2004) with respect to competence (see ibidem, p. 1624). Pairwise comparisons showed that perceived competence does not only predict the winner but is also positively correlated with the differences in the share of votes (see ibidem, p. 1624).…”

What Makes Russian Women (Un)Happy? A Closer Look at the Family

“…in post-communist Romania in Mitrut and Wolff, 2008). The opposite result for Russia is still referred "an unusual finding" (Senik, 2004;Graham et al, 2004). As no significant gender difference in job-satisfaction was found in Russian studies (e.g.…”

Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach

“…Only two such studies have been conducted, both using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (Graham et al, 2004;Massin & Kopp, 2014); Massin & Kopp's more robust study finds no relationship between alcohol consumption and wellbeing among women, but that heavier drinking men have lower life satisfaction.…”