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Income comparison, gender roles and life satisfaction

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  • Jan Salland

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This article uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household income comparison on individual life satisfaction. Our within couple and individual fixed-effects panel estimates suggest that gender roles influence subjective well-being (SWB). A primary breadwinner wife decreases a couple’s individual happiness by eight per cent. The article adds to the findings on interdependence of SWB and hints at negative consequences of traditional gender identity norms for individual happiness.

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  • Jan Salland, 2018. "Income comparison, gender roles and life satisfaction," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(20), pages 1436-1439, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:25:y:2018:i:20:p:1436-1439
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1430305
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    1. Salland, Jan, 2021. "Income Comparison and Happiness within Households," Working Paper 191/2021, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg.
    2. André Hajek & Hans-Helmut König, 2019. "Not Getting What You Want? The Impact of Income Comparisons on Subjective Well-Being—Findings of a Population-Based Longitudinal Study in Germany," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(15), pages 1-8, July.
    3. Vanessa Gash & Anke C Plagnol, 2021. "The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 35(3), pages 566-583, June.

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