Effects of different life events on life satisfaction in the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

Jan Michael Bauer, Dario Cords, Rachelle Sellung and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 129, issue C, 91-94

Abstract: This paper analyses the relation between unemployment, marriage, divorce, widowhood and subjective well-being using Russian panel data. Contrary to Clark et al. (2008) and Clark and Georgellis (2013), we find little evidence of adaptation to these life events.

Keywords: Subjective well-being; Life events; Adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 I1 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.016

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