Standard economic theory suggests that more choice is usually better. We address this claim and investigate whether people can cope...
It is believed that the length of a person’s life depends on a mixture of economic and social factors. Yet...
The literature on marital status and happiness has neglected comparative analysis, cohabitation, and gender-specific analysis. It is not clear if...
Do unmarried individuals experience more emotional and health problems than their married counterparts? According to more than 130 empirical studies...
Higher psychological well-being among married as opposed to unmarried persons may be due to social selection into marriage, or to...
The self-employed are substantially more satisfied with their work than employed persons. We document this relationship for 23 countries and...
Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro‐social activities. Following Aristotle, helping others is the way to higher individual wellbeing....
초록 없음 Becker, G. S. (1974). A theory of marriage: Part II. Journal of political Economy, 82(2, Part 2), S11-S26.https://doi.org/10.1086/260287 ...
This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We...
Using data from the Current Population Survey March Supplement 1999, this study examines why married men earn more than men...