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 …

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as … reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by measuring the impact of changes in working-hours on life satisfaction … find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women. …

groupsare most detrimental to life satisfaction? The analysis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 pretest modules of the …. The consequences of such comparisons for life satisfaction prove to be negative: the more importance an individual … attaches to income comparisons with reference groups, the lower his or her life satisfaction. Income relative to neighbors and …

health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a …

satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to … Commission. Using data from the European Community Household Panel, we present further evidence for satisfaction-based poverty … lines is also investigated. -- Household income ; poverty line ; income satisfaction …