Andrew E. Clark,
Hippolyte d’Albis,
Angela Greulich
S. 293 - 318
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
doi:
10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res3.1
Abstract:
In this study, we ask whether the U-shaped relationship between life satisfactionand age is flatter for individuals who are partnered. An analysis of cross-sectionalEU-SILC data indicates that the decline in life satisfaction from the teens to thefifties is almost four times larger for non-partnered than for partnered individuals,whose life satisfaction essentially follows a slight downward trajectory with age.However, the same analysis applied to three panel datasets (BHPS, SOEP andHILDA) reveals a U-shape for both groups, albeit somewhat flatter for the partneredthan for the non-partnered individuals. We suggest that the difference between thecross-sectional and the panel results reflects compositional effects: i.e., there isa significant shift of the relatively dissatisfied out of marriage in mid-life. Thesecompositional effects tend to flatten the U-shape in age for the partnered individualsin the cross-sectional data.
life satisfaction; life cycle; partnership; marriage
Published Online:
2021/03/09 10:36:06
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