Shields, Michael; Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
status and other demographic characteristics in determining individual life satisfaction or happiness. In this paper we … investigate how life satisfaction is affected by a large exogenous shock, namely, reunification for East Germans. In particular … new fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel and develop a decomposition …