We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …

We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household … longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates … internal LOC is associated with higher marital satisfaction and that own LOC matters more for marital satisfaction than spouse …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …

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 …

.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 …

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 …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital 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 …

institutionalized career disruptions on life satisfaction. Drawing on data from the SOEP, we apply a difference-in-differences design … (comparing young males and females) to assess the causal effect of this reform on individual life satisfaction. Our results show … a significant and robust positive effect of the abolition of compulsory service on young males' life satisfaction …