their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases … most with additional time spent with spouse. Among singles, satisfaction decreases most as more time is spent alone …

We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) to learn how Americans perceive their near … the expectations questions and they appear to do so in a meaningful way. Using the responses to classify individuals as … find some time-series variation in insecurity but no clear trends. We find that expectations and realizations of health …

micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on …We find expectations are more sensitive to economic growth than traditional wellbeing metrics. We examine Eurobarometer … their country in the year ahead. These expectations start to decline several months before the onset of downturns with …

union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs counter to findings in … United States we show the association between union membership and job satisfaction switched from negative to positive in the … between membership and job satisfaction is apparent in cohorts born in the 1940s and 1950s but turns positive for those born …

relative marginal utilities not only for happiness and life satisfaction, but also for aspects related to family, health …

understanding subjective outcomes, such as expectations, that underlie objective economic behavior …

wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model … happiness and life satisfaction in recent years even before the onset of pandemic. As in the past they continue to have lower …