prominent events - is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany. …Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society … concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction …

An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those … is now regarded as inadequate since several national panel surveys show that substantial minorities of respondents have … trajectories of respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel who reported their LS for 25 consecutive years in 1990-2014. The …

Using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020, we estimate the impact of the Covid-19 … health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …

time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual … well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part of time use in non-market services: it is parental child care which … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is …

poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

Using 20 years of nationally representative panel data in South Korea, we estimate how life satisfaction responds to … income shocks. We document that unexpected income changes significantly impact an individual's life satisfaction, and the … satisfaction, while transitory income shocks have minimal impact. We also find that life satisfaction regarding external factors …

individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two …

implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in …We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and …

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to …