of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …

underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the … relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using … Gallup World Poll data for several European countries and the United States. We find that voluntary part-time workers are …

individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring … examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that …

individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring … examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that …

, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with … satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen's d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general …