individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring … examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that …

household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … financial satisfaction and subjective prosperity. Taking into account monetary factors in addition to income, the results … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …

large loss of satisfaction experienced by individuals in old age. …

satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …

We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and … implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to …

Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but … satisfaction in couples over several years. We found that unemployment decreases life satisfaction in both members of the couple … experienced a greater drop in life satisfaction if their partners were employed than if they were unemployed at the time of the …

on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal characteristics we apply innovative instrumental variable … individual well-being. Additionally, we also find that income and future job chances are the most important drivers of happiness …