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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan's (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning...

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What women want (their men to do) : housework and satisfaction in Australian households

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much housework men and women should contribute are likely to influence couples' housework allocation decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data...

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Mitigating life challenges to subjective well-being through civic engagement : insights from a global perspective

Wu, Fengyu; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2024

This paper investigates the role of civic engagement, an important form of social capital from the supply side, in buffering the adverse effects of challenging life circumstances in three key domains-employment, marriage, and health-on individual subjective well-being, specifically in terms of...

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The Easterlin Paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …

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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough : the worldwide evidence on subjective well-being efficiency

Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2020

Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness …

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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data

Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018 - This version: February 2018

To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS)...

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Double-edged sword : persistent effects of communism on life satisfaction

Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021

Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...

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Feeling richer and happier? : self-perceived economic welfare and life satisfaction : evidence of "Easterlin paradox" from Russian longitudinal data

Jin, Olivia S.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020

. This study aims to provide a possible explanation of the 'Easterlin Paradox' a phenomenon in which individuals 'happiness … increases with income, yet an increase in income of the whole society does not necessarily increase the happiness of all (1974 …

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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment Analysis to a …

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Younger and dissatisfied? : relative age and life-satisfaction in adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. We find evidence that relative age...

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