search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …

The life satisfaction literature has boomed in the last decades since economists have access to more accurate databases … between financial crises and life satisfaction, due to the difficulty of collecting aggregate information at high frequency …

report lower levels of life satisfaction in times of higher uncertainty approximated by stock market volatility. This effect … financial crisis increases the probability of reporting low values of life satisfaction. …