Three times more than money: generativity, relational goods and life satisfaction
Leonardo Becchetti,
Massimo Cermelli,
Dalila De Rosa
Abstract:Generativity and the quality of relational goods are two key drivers of subjective well-being traditionally neglected in the economic literature. By using two different data sources – the European Social Survey (ESS) and the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) - we investigate their impact on life satisfaction of two large samples of Italian individuals. Our findings show that the effect is positive and significant and, in both estimates from the two different data sources, a change f… Show more
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