divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …

studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those …

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …

. In contrast, women did not experience any significant impact on employment during pandemic, as reported by their husbands … affected wives more than husbands. In contrast, women staying employed during the pandemic is associated with worse mental … stress for women relative to men, possibly due to the 'home-based' nature of women's networks …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the …-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs, influencing the general feeling of happiness women experience given their … decision. The trade-offs are especially pronounced in traditional developing countries, where both the pressure for women to …

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 …, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework …

Several reforms increased the state pension age (SPA) in the UK and equalised it to age 65 for both men and women. We … on various aspects of personal, financial, and mental wellbeing. The effect is larger for women who have to wait longer … to reach their SPA, and smaller for women with a partner (compared to those without a partner). The effect of the reform …

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect … measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in … weeks apart is 0.64, which is slightly higher than the correlation of life satisfaction (r=0.59). Correlations between …