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Peer reviewedFrijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2004
The German socio economic panel found negative effects on life satisfactions from losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in hospital, while the positive effects were from income and marriage. Life satisfaction for East German increased after the reunification due to increase in household incomes, improvement in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Spouses, Death
