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 …

estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain … estimation to deal with imperfect recollection of conditions at very early stages of life. The estimated average causal effects …