This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 … matters does overall not affect life satisfaction. However, women are more satisfied with their lives when discriminatory …

This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 … matters does overall not affect life satisfaction. However, women are more satisfied with their lives when discriminatory …

widely reported gender happiness inequality puzzle can be explained. …A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only …

it, or replacing it. This chapter portrays some of these new measures and puts them to a happiness test: compared to the … for 34 OECD societies, we can show that from a happiness perspective, there is-surprisingly-little wrong with the GDP, and … sum, the chapter demonstrates that a happiness perspective can add important insights along the way to facilitate the …

paid work hours are negatively correlated with life satisfaction, our results suggest that inequality of well-being may …

distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …

of Happiness is an example of such a tool. The archive is tailored to meet the requirements of assembling research … findings on happiness; both distributional findings (how happy people are) and correlational findings (what things go together … with happiness). With its focus on 'findings' the system differs from data-archives that store 'investigations' and from …

for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the gender wage … are less (not more) satisfied with life in liberal communities where the gender wage gap is smaller. These findings are … consistent with the idea that norms regarding the appropriate relative pay of women compared to men are shaping gender …