기사
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness /
- 개인저자
- Stevenson, Betsey ;, Wolfers, Justin
- 수록페이지
- 190-225 p.
- 발행일자
- 2009.08.11
- 출판사
- American Economic Association
초록
[영문]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