This paper applies the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household in-come comparison on … individual life satisfaction. Our estimates indicate, a primary breadwinner wifedecreases spousal individual happiness by roughly …. The paper adds to within household interdepen-dence of subjective well-being and indicates negative consequences of couple …

-resident partners, and life satisfaction. Contrary to previous studies, we investigate the effects of recent changes in relative … earnings within couples as well as labour market transitions. Using several waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we … reveal that men exhibit an increase in life satisfaction in response to a recent increase in their proportional earnings. For …