By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by …. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less satisfied …

This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse … satisfaction when the other spouse performs more housework on weekdays. Japanese dual-earner couples are unable to spend more time …

there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … disruption, we discover that the well-being effects are symmetric. Finally, we find that marriage improves well-being for both …

longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates …We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household … internal LOC is associated with higher marital satisfaction and that own LOC matters more for marital satisfaction than spouse …