Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …
