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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

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Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis

Grossbard, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually … present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …

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Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders

Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an …

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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003

Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...

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If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?

Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender …

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - CESifo - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - CESifo - 2008

We reassess the “scarring” hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person’s current life satisfaction even after the person hasbecome reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...

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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario "vibrant." It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...

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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

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