-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed …

general life satisfaction question, differs between youths living in intact and non-intact families, holding many other …

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 …

average life satisfaction than primary-earning men, while such differences were not found for women. The analysis offers … reveal that men exhibit an increase in life satisfaction in response to a recent increase in their proportional earnings. For … women their proportional earnings had no effect on life satisfaction in one model, and in a model that accounted for their …

education gap on males’ and females’ life satisfaction. The study finds that a spousal education gap, whether positive or … negative, does not have any significant impact on males’ and females’ life satisfaction. To further investigate these issues … spousal education gap has an insignificant impact on life satisfaction in both of these groups. …