The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular … by investigating factors determining the demand for hospitalization in Germany. While most previous studies have found a …

higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

The recent literature has shown that subjective welfare depends on relative income. Attempts to test this relationship … above a certain income level. We revisit the issue using data from Nepal. We find a relative consumption effect that is …

affect responses to questions about income and consumption adequacy. Results show that isolation significantly reduce … subjective assessments of income and consumption adequacy, even after controlling for consumption expenditures and other factors …

-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 …

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 …

and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita … level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …