satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …: for a given number of years in poverty, satisfaction is lower when the years are linked together. As such, poverty …

well-being. An application using high-quality German survey data supports the measure's validity. Specifically, the results … satisfaction substantially, quantitatively similar to unemployment. Finally, questions like preference vs. deprivation, cross …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

unwilling might respond more negatively when being asked about their satisfaction with life. …

, job, and pay satisfaction between those who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those … satisfaction by 0.10 standard deviations (0.15 points on a ten-point Likert scale). Positive effects last at least until one year … after the reform. Life satisfaction tends to increase particularly in the region that is overall economically less developed …