@techreport{NBERw14969,
 title = "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness",
 author = "Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "14969",
 year = "2009",
 month = "May",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w14969",
 abstract = {By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men.  The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries.  Relative declines in female happiness have eroded a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically 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.},
}