-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to … German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …

the German Socioeconomic Panel dataset (SOEP), a subjective question on Life Satisfaction, and three different sets of non … economic ladder. By contrast, the Life Satisfaction reaction to changes in economic status is significantly lower among …

This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to … correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively …

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 …

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …

that changes in hand grip strength and overall life satisfaction capture two different aspects of health status and its …Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the … other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other …

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