that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show …

of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health … – which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone Replacement Therapy increases the risk of heart attacks, stroke, blood … clots and breast cancer among healthy post-menopausal women. Because hormone replacement is a therapy exclusive to women, we …

initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject …, albeit of a much smaller magnitude, is also found among women. We show that this is likely driven by the widowhood effect—women …

countries on four continents there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been … evidence using the World Values Surveys that female total work is relatively greater than men's where both men and women …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The …

, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further …

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added …

men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their earnings, and in their survival … account for the age distributions of ever and never married men and women, for the probabilities of marrying a younger bride … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His … argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Thus, extending the lifespan of men … would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we conduct an empirical …