Alcohol Consumption Impact on Life Satisfaction Across Various Demographics

The purpose of the paper is analysis of the dependence between life satisfaction and alcohol consumption for different age groups of the population. For the analysis, the data of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of the Higher School of Economics (RLMS HSE) were used for the period from 2001 to 2016 also regarding certain restrictions. Within this paper, three hypothesis were tested: life satisfaction depends on alcohol consumption for all studied samples (men and women aged 18-25, 26-40, 40 till retirement age, older than the retirement age); alcohol consumptions influences life satisfaction variously for different age groups; the shape of relationship between life satisfaction and alcohol consumption is inverse U-shaped for women and inverse J-shaped for men. Second hypothesis was approved, first and third one partly approved. For other control variables following relationship character were obtained for all samples: having a partner, increasing BMI, improving health, stop smoking, improving civil rights, getting higher education level, employment at work, increasing household income have a positive impact on the subjective well-being, age has U-shaped dependence.