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 …

:3 percent of the women born between 1954 and 1958 started their first union outside of a formal marriage. The figure increases …Living arrangements have undergone considerable change in recent decades. In most Western countries marriage is no … Goff (2002) reports that in the case of French women born between 1944 and 1948, 22 percent started their first union as a …

labor supply choices. This is mainly due to the fact that East German women are much more attached to the labor market. …

, mainly because women have a lower educational attainment than men but also because similar qualification levels yield lower … wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German full-time employees in the … attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that …

What happens to demand if a magazine launches a website? This question is empirically analyzed for the German women …

demand curves: the demand for the print medium and the demand for advertising space. Publicly available data on German women …'s magazines observed between 1998 and 2001 are used in the GMM estimation. Main findings are that my estimated marginals cost …: magazines, cost estimation, GMM estimation, website provision …

traditional degree program has affected first-year students’ satisfaction. Three dimensions of student satisfaction are focused … upon: Student satisfaction with teaching, student satisfaction with the organization of the study programs, as well as an … compared to the traditional programs in recent years. -- Bologna ; reforms ; evaluation ; fixed effects ; student satisfaction …

residents, point not only to improvements in living satisfaction, but indicate also a huge potential for socio-economic cost …