their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … most with additional time spent with spouse. Among singles, satisfaction decreases most as more time is spent alone …

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

been uninsured. In this sense, the study shows that a loss coupled with emotions is likely to play an important role in …

We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment … rate and the inflation rate. Our preferred interpretation is that this shows that emotions are affected by macroeconomic … fluctuations. Contentment is, at a minimum, one of the important emotions that central banks should focus on. More ambitiously …

In this paper we estimate the size of weekend effects for seven emotions and then explore their main determinants for … weekend effects exist for all emotions, and that these effects are not explained by sample selection bias. Full-time workers … have a larger weekend effects than do part- time workers for all emotions except sadness, for which weekend effects are …