the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from …, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on … includes self-reported happiness and mental well-being measures, with contemporaneous local air quality and weather information …

longitudinal evidence that a drop in life satisfaction tends to precede the use of illegal/street drugs. We also find that the … current levels of life satisfaction. This provides empirical support for the utility misprediction model. Further, we find … that the decrease in life satisfaction following the consumption of illegal/street drugs persists 6 months to a year after …

-resident partners, and life satisfaction. Contrary to previous studies, we investigate the effects of recent changes in relative … earnings within couples as well as labour market transitions. Using several waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we … reveal that men exhibit an increase in life satisfaction in response to a recent increase in their proportional earnings. For …

This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

This paper presents robust evidence that retirement causally improves overall life satisfaction which is subsequently … explained by improvements in satisfaction with one’s financial situation, free time, health, and participation in local … first 3 years. We find that the improvements in financial satisfaction upon retirement are only observed for low …