economic concept of utility maximisation. The analysis highlights a conflict between what economic theory predicts - more … disposable income and a gain of leisure time - and the psychological (and cultural) notion of the lonely, sad empty nester. This … conflict is an empirical question and here it is resolved via an assessment of the change in life satisfaction that is reported …

until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction to track such factors. The German PASS-ADIAB dataset combines … income, time-stable individual traits, employment biographies and local labor market effects.Given a broad set of further … covariates, we find that life satisfaction of in-work benefit recipientsis negatively associated with job search, whereas the …

-being. We confirm a dramatic decrease in mental health and life satisfaction after the loss of partner, followed by a slow …

moderators of widowhood's impact on well-being. We confirm a dramatic decrease in mental health and life satisfaction after the …

large extent and increase welfare for those providing care, especially for low-income individuals. …

income, when analysing individuals’ life satisfaction. …Wealth in addition to income determines to a large degree an individual’s consumption opportunities and economic … satisfaction as an indicator of subjective well being and households’ wealth. We contribute to the scarce literature on wealth and …

. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; income ; disutility of labor …We reexamine the claim that the effect of income on subjective well-being suffers from a systematic downward bias if … one ignores that higher income is typically associated with more work effort. We analyze this claim using German panel …