-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect … measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in … weeks apart is 0.64, which is slightly higher than the correlation of life satisfaction (r=0.59). Correlations between …

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect … days with bad mental health and more restless sleep. Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives such as … wellbeing metrics – happiness and life satisfaction – is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model …

This paper examines the trends in the well-being of American women over the last 25 years, a time of significant … changes in the relative economic status of women and in the labor market as a whole. A broad range of indicators are … considered to capture changes in women's well-being in the family as well as in the labor market. For virtually all age and …