| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20794 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20794 |
| How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness | |
| Shawn Grover; John F. Helliwell | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-01-05 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued that this correlation may be result of happier people being more likely to marry. Others have presented evidence suggesting that the well-being benefits of marriage are short-lasting. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we control individual pre-marital well-being levels and find that the married are still more satisfied, suggesting a causal effect, even after full allowance is made for selection effects. Using new data from the United Kingdom's Annual Population Survey, we find that the married have a less deep U-shape in life satisfaction across age groups than do the unmarried, indicating that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are unlikely to be short-lived. We explore friendship as a mechanism which could help explain a causal relationship between marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is also their best friend. Finally, we use the Gallup World Poll to show that although the overall well-being effects of marriage appear to vary across cultural contexts, marriage eases the middle-age dip in life evaluations for all regions except Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20794 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578474 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shawn Grover,John F. Helliwell. How's Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness. 2015. |
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