-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with … physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms …-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

Utilizing the 2015 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) that covers 7045 households, we … study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … looked after. The favorable effects on mental health seem limited to grandparents living in rural areas and apply especially …

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic … robust positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is … driven by a positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that …