substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both … self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well …

. -- Subjective well-being ; life satisfaction ; happiness ; gender ; job satisfaction ; women's movement …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …