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 … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …

satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower … over a wide interval of the partner's working hours. -- Subjective well-being ; life satisfaction ; working time …

This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses … the economic gap between their countries of origin, German men can marry comparatively more attractive women on the …-related "marriage squeeze" encountered by German men older than 30 years. Only on account of their age do these men struggle to find a …

and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women …

Many studies confirm that marriage does not have lasting effects on levels of happiness, whereas divorce induces … divorce impacts the subjective well-being (SWB) of the divorced. Taking into consideration that remarriage often entails … happiness than the first-married during the transition phase. Moreover, while life satisfaction that increased in the years …

data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with … estimates of the marital surplus are negatively correlated with separation and the difference in spouses' subjective satisfaction. …

the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as … satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …

-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by … effects being found for women. …

in men and women - after four years or longer, about twice the gain associated with marriage (controlling for weight … cohabitation; women lost some weight in the first year, men gained some weight after four or more years of separation. Divorce … marriage or cohabitation do not necessarily include a healthier BMI. They also suggest that relationship transitions …