Health and happiness in Uruguay Gerstenblüth, Mariana Rossi, Máximo Jewell, R. Todd Happiness Health Matching methods Uruguay This article presents a study of the relationship between self-reported happiness and selfassessed health status at the individual level, using the Religion, Health, and Young Emancipation ISSP survey for Uruguay in 2008. Probit estimates suggest that better selfassessed health status is highly correlated with greater levels of self-reported happiness. In order to control for the observed heterogeneity, models are estimated using matching methods. Results show that individuals who report themselves to be in good health have a probability of being at the highest level of happiness between 18 and 29 percentage points higher than individuals who report worse health. 2014-05-05T12:55:32Z 2014-05-05T12:55:32Z 2010 report Gestenblüth, M.; Jewell, T.; Rossi, M. Health and happiness in Uruguay. Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2010). (The Papers; 10/06). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31563] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31563 eng The Papers;10/06 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica