This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …

income, demographics and social capital. The increase in social capital predicts the largest positive change in subjective … well-being. Income growth, also predicts a substantial change in subjective well-being, but it is compensated for about … three fourths by the joint negative predictions due to income comparison and income adaptation. Finally, we find that aging …

untersucht, inwiefern (1) das Wetter am Befragungstag, (2) Wahlergebnisse im Vorfeld des Interviews, (3) eine indirekte …This contribution analyses the presumption that subjective assessments of cognitive life satisfaction provide hardly … thesis, the author uses the 50.359 participants containing dataset GlücksTREND2013 to test whether (1) the weather conditions …

satisfaction. We find that both measures are related to mortality risk. However, the effects are quite independent. Thus we argue … that changes in hand grip strength and overall life satisfaction capture two different aspects of health status and its …

observed regional pattern of life satisfaction reflects macroeconomic fundamentals, where labor market conditions play a … satisfaction gap between East and West Germany can be attributed to differing macroeconomic conditions. Moreover, the effects of … unemployment and income differ in size between regions such that one can assume increasing marginal disutility of unemployment. The …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … per capita and life satisfaction in either country (controlling for a variety of variables). Together with the evidence … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …: for a given number of years in poverty, satisfaction is lower when the years are linked together. As such, poverty …

disposable income and a gain of leisure time - and the psychological (and cultural) notion of the lonely, sad empty nester. This … conflict is an empirical question and here it is resolved via an assessment of the change in life satisfaction that is reported … goes on to do: The found reduced life satisfaction seems to be wholly moderated if the last child leaves the nest for the …