a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded …

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 …

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings …

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 …

self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well …We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both … contacts and family have the highest impact on global life satisfaction, followed by job and daily activities and health …

satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend …. There is no evidence of an increase in life satisfaction of the magnitude that might have been expected to result from the … accompanying dissolution of the social safety net along with growing income inequality. The burden of worsening life satisfaction …

little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives. This paper uses the …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …