-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders notably increased satisfaction with democracy and shifted political support towards … centrist parties. Stay-at-home orders increased satisfaction with democracy most among individuals who had been exposed to the … restrictive state interventions. Moreover, we find suggestive evidence that satisfaction with democracy increases more among …

persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …

children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …. Consistent with our theoretical model, the results for high-mobility countries turn out to be ambiguous. -- happiness ; life …

satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas … of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By …

higher satisfaction with free time, while time spent on hobbies increases to a lesser extent than home production …. Additionally, satisfaction with family life increases, which may be a hidden benefit of being unemployed. In contrast, satisfaction …

show that such signals may increase the salience of the issue in question and hence diminish the life satisfaction of … citizens with low political trust. For citizens with high trust, such signals appear to enhance life satisfaction. This means …