including gender considerations in budget programs and policies. Other arguments have a weaker economic basis but may be more … socially or politically compelling. The experience to date with "gender budgeting," which entails looking at gender issues … comprehensively within the budget, has been mixed. To become more useful, gender budgeting should be integrated into budget processes …

This survey examines the implications of gender differences in economic behavior for macroeconomic policy. It finds … that reducing gender inequality and improving the status of women may contribute to higher rates of economic growth and …. Macroeconomic policies should take into account the benefits of reducing gender inequalities, especially in the lowest …

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 …

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 …

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 …

quantitative, but no qualitative, gender and age differences in the capabilities-life satisfaction relationship. Furthermore, we … satisfaction measure of utility and investigates aspects of robustness and subgroup differences using standard socio … find that indicators from a wide range of life domains are linked to life satisfaction, a finding that supports multi …

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 …

opportunities. It is widely believed that happiness research based on self-reports on people’s satisfaction with life has made a … significant contribution to this understanding. The growing numbers of happiness studies provoke the question whether, and … answering this question, this review paper provides a survey of the general happiness conception, the formative steps of …

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 …