In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children … is not associated with significant loss of overall happiness. If children reduce feelings of being loved by the spouse …

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze …

, and overall life satisfaction? Labor supply and corresponding demand are fundamental to production. Labor economists know … importance; they guarantee high productivity, quality output, and individual happiness. Employees demand higher social awareness …

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …

outcomes. Additionally, we measure risk attitude and the emotions of subjects. While we find a strong influence of emotions …

happiness. Sincenegative emotions are experienced as painful, there is direct hedonicimpact. (2) Irritation and contempt drive … primarily interested in how emotions influenceresponder behavior. Our findings are the following. (1) A higher take … probabilityof punishment but not on the intensity of experienced emotion. We explainthis last result in terms of norm …

emotions intoaccount. In addition, an (alternative) emotion-basedexplanation is provided for related experimental … results and offer anexplanation that takes the role of experienced emotions(measured with self-reports) and anticipated …

the intensity of ties between responders impacts the decisions, beliefs, and emotions of both the responders and the take … and expected take rate is a much better predictor of experienced emotions and destruction than the difference between the …