as an instrument for health insurance coverage, we estimate its large impact on overall life-satisfaction. Our results … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find that the reform significantly improved Massachusetts residents' overall life-satisfaction …

how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …

source of unhappiness in the United States, even for people with high income. -- Life satisfaction ; health care coverage …

We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD …) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid … disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related hospitalizations but mental illness hospitalizations were unchanged. Use of …

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and … insurance coverage by approximately 16 percentage points. We show that the compliers, those induced by the policy to obtain … insurance, are disproportionately female and largely from the middle of the socioeconomic distribution. Instrumental variables …

We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household … longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates … internal LOC is associated with higher marital satisfaction and that own LOC matters more for marital satisfaction than spouse …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …

-being, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction as the cognitive dimension of well-being. Little is known about the … rapidly as compared to life satisfaction. Contrary to existing studies, we find decreases in emotional well-being but not in … life satisfaction in anticipation of unemployment. …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions. …