in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts … divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …

This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross …

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

While a large body of evidence suggests that unemployment and self-reported happiness are negatively correlated, it is … not clear whether this reflects a causal effect of unemployment on happiness and whether subsidized employment can … increase the happiness of the unemployed. To close this gap, this paper estimates the causal effect of a type of subsidized …

satisfaction for subjective well-being (SWB) and relative income and employment security for objective well-being (OWB). We ran … the way capabilities and choices matter for well-being. Capabilities indicated by human capital, trust, altruism and risk …

happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently …