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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stevenson, Betsey
• Wolfers, Justin

Titel

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

Ist Teil von

• American economic journal. Economic policy, 2009-08, Vol.1 (2), p.190-225

Ort / Verlag

American Economic Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years by many objective measures, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. This decline in relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, demographic groups, and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s 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.