We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present study conducts an … empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the … death of their spouse and identifies the causal effect of widowhood. The average level of satisfaction in a control group of …

satisfaction. We find that both measures are related to mortality risk. However, the effects are quite independent. Thus we argue … the SOEP survey. In a first step, we examine short-term mortality outcomes predicted by changes in hand grip strength … that changes in hand grip strength and overall life satisfaction capture two different aspects of health status and its …

associated with late-life trajectories of well-being. Associations were independent of key correlates of well-being and mortality …

examining whether and how levels of and changes in life satisfaction prospectively predict mortality hazards and delineate the … showed that lower levels and steeper declines of life satisfaction each uniquely predicted higher mortality risks. Results … approach to link developmental changes (in life satisfaction) to mortality hazards and considers implications of our findings …