I’m currently back home in Australia for a couple of weeks and just want to give a heads-up to the locals that I’ll be giving a talk at ANU this Wednesday. Andrew Leigh has put together an interesting half-day conference on the Economics of Happiness. I’ll be talking about the Paradox of Declining Female Happiness; Betsey Stevenson will talk about our ongoing research linking economic growth and well-being; and Paul Frijters — who was recently named Australia’s best young economist — will talk about what he’s been learning from HILDA, a quickly maturing longitudinal dataset that tracks the life satisfaction of a representative sample of Aussie households.
For those interested, more details are available here and here.
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I think one of the conclusion in your PDF — that the changes wrought by the women’s movement have not made women happier — is most likely correct. Certainly a traditionally-minded young woman is going to have a harder time finding a husband who will be willing to work while she stays home. And women who are out in the workplace often find that it is not as satisfying as they had hoped. I also think that for many women having their children in daycare has taken an emotional toll — they (perhaps more than their husbands) lament that they are not more intimately involved with their children as they are growing up. A final observation: the brunt of elder care often falls on women, and that can be much more difficult than caring for children!
I wonder if they’re more unhappy due to something like choice paralysis.
Will there be any online releases or discussion on the day – twitter hashtag perhaps?