This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous … population survey, we estimate empirical health satisfaction models that take these interrelations into account. We find that … illness on health satisfaction. This is also the first study to show the relevance of health-related upward and downward …

how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. In stage one, we model housework time to identify … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …

very strong assumptions. Measured income and life satisfaction offers an alternative for estimating such consumption … municipality of residence has a negative impact on own income satisfaction …

decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data spanning the years 2001-2014, we employ a two-stage estimation procedure to … examine how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. We find that satisfaction is negatively affected … by predicted housework time, and that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected by their partners …

.g., satisfaction with family life, leisure, income, work, health) and affective (e.g., happiness, anger, worry, sadness) components of … contrast to previous papers in the literature, according to which commuting is bad for overall life satisfaction, we find no … evidence that commuting in general is associated with a lower life satisfaction. Rather, it appears that longer commutes are …