, 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 …

and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence … the direction of potential causality between financial and economic development. Our results conclude to the existence of … a single cointegrating vector between financial development and growth and of causality going from financial development …