-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 …

argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children … task particularly suitable for women and children. This in turn generates a preference for fewer children, lowering …

divorce laws on the probability of entering and exiting marriage. Women planning to have children marry more easily with an … easier "exit option" from marriage. Thus, more children are born in the first years of marriage, while the total marital …

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-timework and working hours … satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account forinterdependence within the family using data on partnered men …