divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …

Based on three large panel surveys, this paper shows that happiness gaps between spouses are a good predictor of future … divorce. The effect of happiness gaps is asymmetric: couples are more likely to break-up when the woman is the less happy … asymmetry suggests that the effect of happiness gaps is grounded on motives of relative deprivation (i.e. comparisons of …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …

, whether marriage makes people more satisfied with life or whether more satisfied couples are more likely to marry remains a … debated question. We reassess this relationship with panel data from the German Family Panel (pairfam) and extend previous … distinguish - controlling for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity - whether there is in fact an effect of marriage on life …