-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …

We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of … results, we present a simple model where we assume that (i) Life Satisfaction is dependent from the gap between aspired and … that the gap between aspired and realized income increase with aspirations. From the estimation of this model we argue that …

investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …

these findings by examining the heterogeneous unemployment effects over the quantiles of satisfaction with various life …Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies …

Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …

adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over … adult life satisfaction at all ages. Of these, emotional health is the strongest. Childhood cognitive performance is more … important than good conduct in explaining adult life satisfaction in the earlier NCDS cohort, whereas this ranking is inverted …