Frijters, Paul; Greenwell, Harry; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; … - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 42 (2009) 4, pp. 1326-1346
Using German panel data, we investigate how well individuals predict their own future life satisfaction. The context is the decade following the 1990 reunification of Germany, which provided a large shock to the future prospects of the inhabitants of the former East Germany. We find that the...