The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness Export

@article{citeulike:6056313, abstract = {The lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years by many objective measures, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. This decline in relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, demographic groups, and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s reported higher subjective well-being than did men. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men. (JEL I31, J16, J28)}, author = {Stevenson, Betsey and Wolfers, Justin}, citeulike-article-id = {6056313}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.1.2.190}, doi = {10.1257/pol.1.2.190}, issn = {1945-7731}, journal = {American Economic Journal: Economic Policy}, keywords = {economics, gender, happiness, toread}, month = {August}, number = {2}, pages = {190--225}, posted-at = {2009-11-02 13:07:01}, priority = {2}, title = {The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.1.2.190}, volume = {1}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6056313 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6056313 N2 - The lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years by many objective measures, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. This decline in relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, demographic groups, and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s reported higher subjective well-being than did men. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men. (JEL I31, J16, J28) IS - 2 JF - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy SN - 1945-7731 EP - 225 TI - The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness VL - 1 SP - 190 KW - economics KW - gender KW - happiness KW - toread AU - Stevenson, Betsey AU - Wolfers, Justin PY - 2009/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.1.2.190 ER -