characteristics were identified to play a role in explaining the differences in reported satisfaction between the two groups: age …, gender, family size, having a life partner. Although, the self reported satisfaction with the family situation seems to be …

This paper explores the role of within group social comparisons on the life satisfaction of different racial and ethnic … groups in the US. For Whites, we find that higher group income levels are associated with lower levels of life satisfaction …, a result that is consistent with a preference for within group status. In contrast, life satisfaction is increasing in …

This paper investigates ten Asian nations to consider how socio-economic values affect happiness and satisfaction … they have more opportunities to obtain higher happiness and satisfaction but it does not happen in the current study …. Unemployment has negative and significant impact with regard to happiness and satisfaction in developing countries yet it does not …

towards their children. Using self-reported life happiness and life satisfaction, we investigate the differences by gender in … children’s outcomes than the same increase in fathers’ income, suggesting gender differences may exist in parents’ altruism … mutual altruism between father and child as well as mother and child dyads in Singapore. We found that mutual altruism exists …