Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable … overall (pecuniary plus relational) effect on life satisfaction is negative? We provide in the paper some interpretations …

Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et … Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest happiness levels occurring during middle age (Easterlin, 2006 … and cohorteffects. Secondly, all empirical research lacks a theoretical explanation as to why age affects happiness. The …

This paper uses panel data on life satisfaction of about 40,000 individuals in Germany from 1994 to 2013 to analyze the … satisfaction in terms of incidence, intensity and in comparison to income poverty. We find a negative and significant effect of … satisfaction. The impact we find is beyond the effect of mere income poverty. We classify measures of fuel poverty into several …

. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated …

An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those …

satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures … satisfaction with family life. By investigating people's lives beyond their workplaces, our study complements research on the well …

panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …