data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on … prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …

reference to measure the degree of adaptation to widowhood. In the second step, the life satisfaction trajectories of both … would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we conduct an empirical … generate a control group of non-widowed women. The average level of life satisfaction in the control group serves as a …

: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …

. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for …

-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the … survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …