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. …

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. …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the …-being ; life satisfaction ; semiparametric regression ; penalized splines ; age-period model ; age-cohort model …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the …-being ; life satisfaction ; semiparametric regression ; penalized splines ; age-period model ; age-cohort model …

would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we conduct an empirical … generate a control group of non-widowed women. The average level of life satisfaction in the control group serves as a … reference to measure the degree of adaptation to widowhood. In the second step, the life satisfaction trajectories of both …

-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 … death of their spouse and identifies the causal effect of widowhood. The average level of satisfaction in a control group of …

satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower … over a wide interval of the partner’s working hours. -- Subjective well-being ; life satisfaction ; working time …

sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations in self-reported life satisfaction, satisfaction with household income …, job satisfaction, and satisfaction with health. We find high sibling correlations for all measures of well-being. The …