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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2021

Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing

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Debate

EU and UK targets for healthy life expectancy – are they achievable?
Carol Jagger

Demography and well-being
Andrew E. Clark

WELLBYs, cost-benefit analyses and the Easterlin Discount
Paul Frijters

Review

Comparing global reports of subjective well-being to experiential measures
Richard E. Lucas

Anthropometric history and the measurement of wellbeing
Bernard Harris

Research Articles

Wellbeing Indicators and Data
Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator: inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
David E. Bloom - Victoria Y. Fan - Vadim Kufenko - Osondu Ogbuoji - Klaus Prettner - Gavin Yamey

Global improvements in Years of Good Life since 1950
Erich Striessnig - Claudia Reiter - Anna Dimitrova

Mortality evolution in Algeria: What can we learn about data quality?
Farid Flici - Nacer-Eddine Hammouda

Gender Perspectives on Life Satisfaction, Health And Wellbeing
Gender disparities in health at older ages and their consequences for well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean
Marília R. Nepomuceno - Vanessa di Lego - Cássio M. Turra

Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in health and wellbeing across age in France and Switzerland
Anna Barbuscia - Chiara Comolli

Wellbeing, Partnership Unions and The Family
The age U-shape in Europe: the protective role of partnership
Andrew E. Clark - Hippolyte d’Albis - Angela Greulich

Singles in the city: happily ever after?
Bernhard Riederer - Nina-Sophie Fritsch - Lena Seewann

Fathers’ and mothers’ enjoyment of childcare: the role of multitasking
Marina Zannella - Alessandra De Rose

Health and Wellbeing At Old Age
Well-being in Europe: decompositions by country and gender for the population aged 50+
Claudia Reiter - Sonja Spitzer

The life course and subjective well-being across generations – an analysis based on cross-national surveys (2002–2016)
Hideko Matsuo - Koen Matthijs

Education and Wellbeing
Academic track mismatch and the temporal development of well-being and competences in German secondary education
Felix Bittmann

Is educational wellbeing associated with grade repetition and school dropout rates among Indian students? Evidence from a panel study
Ronak Paul - Rashmi

Data and Trends

Years of Good Life: An illustration of a new well-being indicator using data for Thailand
Thananon Buathong - Anna Dimitrova - Paolo Miguel M. Vicerra - Montakarn Chimmamee
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The age U-shape in Europe: The protective role of partnership

    Andrew E. Clark, Hippolyte d`'Albis, Angela Greulich

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2021, pp. 293-318, 2021/03/09

Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res3.1


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doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res3.1

Abstract

In this study, we ask whether the U-shaped relationship between life satisfaction and age is flatter for individuals who are partnered. An analysis of cross-sectional EU-SILC data indicates that the decline in life satisfaction from the teens to the fifties 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 and HILDA) reveals a U-shape for both groups, albeit somewhat flatter for the partnered than for the non-partnered individuals. We suggest that the difference between the cross-sectional and the panel results reflects compositional effects: i.e., there is a significant shift of the relatively dissatisfied out of marriage in mid-life. These compositional effects tend to flatten the U-shape in age for the partnered individuals in the cross-sectional data.

Keywords: Life satisfaction; Life cycle; Partnership; Marriage

Published Online: 2021/03/09

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