In this study, we compare the association of marital satisfaction with the division of labor between husband and wife in Asia, based on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean General Social Surveys in 2006 (N = 2,346, 997, and 990, respectively). Results show that in all three countries, wives are less...

This article appears in Demographic Transition and its Consequences, Ronald D. Lee and David Reher, eds., Supplement to vol. 37 of Population and Development Review, The Population Council, New York, 2011

A paper presented to the International Workshop on Civil Service and Military Pension Arrangements in Selected Countries of the Asia-Pacific organized by PIE, Hitotsubashi University supported by RIPPA held at Hitotsubashi Collaboration Center, Tokyo, Japan on 20-21 January 2011

Objectives. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the associations of life satisfaction with family and social relations differ between elderly men and women in Japan. Methods. Ordered logit models were estimated to explain life satisfaction with a rich set of explanatory variables,...