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| Title: | | The paradox of declining female happiness  |
| Authors: | | Stevenson, Betsey Wolfers, Justin |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4200 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Subjective well-being life satisfaction happiness gender job satisfaction women's movement |
| JEL: | | D6 I32 J1 J7 K1 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090615158 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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