satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual … level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: i) a recent history of … not significantly affect trust. The role of racial cleavages leading to low trust is confirmed when we explicitly account …

happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that … part-time women are more satisfied with working hours than full-time women. Partnered women's life satisfaction is … increased if their partners work full-time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by their partners' market hours but …

happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently …

and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita … level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an …

of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a … happiness. Together these findings indicate a clear role for absolute income and a more limited role for relative income … comparisons in determining happiness. …