analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … sample. No effects on life satisfaction can be found except for underweight men. They reveal less satisfaction. Only in the … health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …

life satisfaction. Unemployed men were the least satisfied, followed by men who were not in the labour market, while men in … satisfaction, compared with women in other labour-market statuses. Our results lend evidence to the contention that men can "have …This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …

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. …

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His …-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present study conducts an … empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the …

comparison income on life satisfaction with all age groups, and many controls. However when we split the West German sample by …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

impact on overall SWB for both genders. Work satisfaction is more important for men than for women, whereas partner … examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions … compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life satisfaction, and differences in the domains of life which have the …

and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio …