Marriage and happiness: A survey

Yoshiro Tsutsui ()

No 18-01, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: This paper explores studies concerning the effect of marriage on happiness and reports the followings. Those who marry are happier than those who don ft. There exists bilateral causality between marriage and happiness. Happiness rises with marriage, but thereafter begins to decline shortly. Whether the adaptation is perfect or not is still undetermined. Why people get married? What kind of couple get married and become happy? Becker (1973) proposed the model of household production, and demonstrated that while the division of labor in a household is efficient, husband and wife who have similar traits are often efficient. The latter statement is known as assortative mating hypothesis in psychology and sociology and many studies have reported that couples who have similar values and/or personality get married and become happy

Keywords: subjective happiness; marriage; adaptation; assortative mating hypothesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2018-01
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