, health-related quality of life and severity of disability, which are designed to measure subjective wellbeing. Notably, the …

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic … prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic … prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …

analyzes gender-specific impacts as well as anticipation and adaptation to major life and labor market events. We focus on six …. While our results indicate full adaptation to some events, and even more so for women, to others we see no or only partial … less rapid or even no adaptation to widowhood and divorce. Women return to their baseline level of happiness relatively …

time of the event, we find significant lag and lead effects. We cannot reject the hypothesis of complete adaptation to … marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment for … patterns of anticipation and adaptation are remarkably similar by sex. …