combination of paid and unpaid work and leisure - affect life satisfaction, and the marginal returns from additional hours spent … has a negative effect on life satisfaction. For men who are leisure rich, however, the marginal benefits of an additional … hour of housework are positive. Leisure rich men appear to gain satisfaction from doing housework, in a way that other men …

has recently moved on to assess couple’s happiness and the extent to which individuals in couples influence each other …’s happiness without making reference to the problem of allocation of resources. The latter is however important to both the … individual and couple happiness, and in the limit determine whether couples stay together. Here we address the role of the …

-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total income and sex-specific income on sex ratios of surviving children. The … survival rates for girls. Moreover, increasing the mother's income increases educational attainment for all children, while …

number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we … this is not the case. Comparing completed fertility by birth cohorts, we find that on average men have more children than … women in four out of the six countries we consider. The gaps are large – reaching up to 4.6 children in Burkina Faso for the …

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that … part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women's life satisfaction is … increased if their partners work full-time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but …

of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … comparisons in determining happiness. …