very strong assumptions. Measured income and life satisfaction offers an alternative for estimating such consumption … externalities. The approach is developed in the context of luxury car consumption (Ferraris and Porsches) in Switzerland. Results … municipality of residence has a negative impact on own income satisfaction …

elicit life satisfaction in retirement. Using Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) along with data from the Health Retirement … Study (HRS), this research explores how spending and relationship quality contribute to life satisfaction in retirement …, and spousal and friend relationships have the greatest impact on creating life satisfaction during retirement, while other …

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 … satisfaction. Furthermore, higher levels of reference-group illness can temporarily alleviate the adverse impact of one's own …

.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 …

This work analyses the determinants of levels of Colombians' satisfaction, particularly the degree of household …