) survey. We find evidence that relative age negatively impacts adolescents' life-satisfaction. A twelve-month age gap …This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction … decreases life-satisfaction, rated on a 0-10 scale, by 0.3 points. This negative effect is consistent across countries. Finally …

students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey …

This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along … function as a unifying explanation for the asymmetric effect of education on life satisfaction. … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We find a positive effect of education on life …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

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 …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to …

We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or … effort to exert. Using data on adolescents in the United States, we structurally estimate this model and find that, on … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …