so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career … 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 …

Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …

Using life satisfaction as a direct measure of individual utility has become popular in the empirical economic … satisfaction a volatile concept that is affected by minor changes in life circumstances? Or is it a reliable measure of personal … happiness? This paper will analyze the impact of a catastrophe, namely the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl, on life …

We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …

self-reported happiness as a channel through which sunshine affects financial variables. I examine the influence of … happiness on risk-taking behavior by instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, and I find that happy people … appear to be more risk-averse in financial decisions, and accordingly choose safer investments. Happy people take more time …

activities which is not explicit in Sen’s original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A … some cases the association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children …

The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using … satisfaction is on average significantly lower in East than in West German federal states and that part of the raw East-West gap is …

satisfaction for subjective well-being (SWB) and relative income and employment security for objective well-being (OWB). We ran …