@techreport{Stevenson2009paradox,
abstract = {By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging - one with higher subjective well-being for men.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {D6; I32; J1; J7; K1; 330; Subjective well-being; life satisfaction; happiness; gender; job satisfaction; women's movement; Lebenszufriedenheit; Frauen; M\"{a}nner; Vergleich; USA},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090615158},
number = {4200},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {The paradox of declining female happiness},
type = {IZA discussion papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35564},
year = {2009}
}
