expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were …

pattern of reference groups in urban areas and to identify channels of positive and negative spillovers on life satisfaction …

strategies, we show that the higher transparency increased the gap in happiness between richer and poorer individuals by 29%, and … it increased the life satisfaction gap by 21%. We provide suggestive evidence that some, although probably not all, of …

This paper presents a new public-use dataset for community-level life satisfaction in Canada, based on more than 400 …,000 observations from the Canadian Community Health Surveys and the General Social Surveys. The country is divided into 1215 similarly … robust differences in life satisfaction between and across urban and rural communities. We then match the life satisfaction …

find that the married have a less deep U-shape in life satisfaction across age groups than do the unmarried, indicating … that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …