We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However … excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to …

visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The … relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. …

into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains …, finance, health, leisure, housing, and environment. We distinguish between long-term and short-term effects. Next, we explain … domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We estimate a model for …

satisfaction and job satisfaction. In particular mothers who worked limited hours before the introduction, possibly due to … constraints, increase their working time and use formal care more intensively. Satisfaction levels are also more strongly affected … satisfaction. Paternal well-being and behavior is not affected by the workplace policy. …

evidence of health benefits. The decline in well-being is especially pronounced in the first year after policy implementation …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the …-being ; life satisfaction ; semiparametric regression ; penalized splines ; age-period model ; age-cohort model …

adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of … workdays to care for a sick child, providing evidence on the children's health channel to adults' welfare losses. …

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income … satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct … people feel satisfied with their income. …

satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general …

health, employment, income, and the family situation and this relationship is apparently not disturbed by global events. Thus …Using life satisfaction as a direct measure of individual utility has become popular in the empirical economic … satisfaction a volatile concept that is affected by minor changes in life circumstances? Or is it a reliable measure of personal …