This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model provides evidence that adaptation takes place within a relatively … short window of time: changes in living conditions are, for the most part, absorbed by an adjustment of the adaptation level …

-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present study conducts an … empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the … death of their spouse and identifies the causal effect of widowhood. The average level of satisfaction in a control group of …

and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas … late motherhood is associated with lower psychological well-being in East Germany. Moreover, among Western German women …

satisfaction. We find that both measures are related to mortality risk. However, the effects are quite independent. Thus we argue … the SOEP survey. In a first step, we examine short-term mortality outcomes predicted by changes in hand grip strength … that changes in hand grip strength and overall life satisfaction capture two different aspects of health status and its …

data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on … prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …

data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on … prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …

data, we compare people's life satisfaction forecasts reported in the first interview after a major life event with their …, marriage, separation or divorce. We find systematic prediction errors that seem at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation …