Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive … 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

to provide a "sage" approach to assessing well-being, since it aims to denote sagacity in the pursuit and satisfaction of …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …

Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …

uncover the divergent experiences of countries in 2020. This paper focuses on the G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany … challenge of cooperation that the coronavirus posed. The only clear pattern that emerges from cross-country comparisons is that …

study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …