pattern of reference groups in urban areas and to identify channels of positive and negative spillovers on life satisfaction …

-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect … days with bad mental health and more restless sleep. Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives such as … wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect … measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in … weeks apart is 0.64, which is slightly higher than the correlation of life satisfaction (r=0.59). Correlations between …

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by …. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less satisfied …

models are estimated for women and men separately, with mother's education as an instrument to account for the potential … endogeneity in income. Results suggest that the optimal own BMI is 27.4 and 22.7 for men and women, respectively. The annual value … of reaching optimal weight ranges from $3,235 for underweight women to $32,378 for obese women and from $19,088 for …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

-country surveys from 167 countries across the world, two US surveys covering multiple years and a survey for Canada. We find women … endogenous variables. However, when one examines the three 'global' wellbeing metrics - happiness, life satisfaction and Cantril …'s Ladder - women are either similar to or 'happier' than men. This finding is insensitive to which controls are included and …