On The Trails Of The Gender “Life Satisfaction” Gap: A Mixed Level Analysis

Over the past few decades the growing focus on wellbeing has researchers questioning whether policies oriented solely towards economic growth will provide increases in citizen subjective wellbeing. The current paper aims to highlight that economic growth isn’t the only contributor to increases in life satisfaction within a country, but also social inequality and good governance play a key role in the wellbeing of an individual. With regards to social inequality, the research is focused particularly on the gender life satisfaction, highliting discrepancies in subjective wellbeing between men and women. Our findings suggest that women are less satisfied with their lives as opposed to the their male counterparts. Moreover, we observe that factors linked to good governance have strong and significant impact on life satisfaction and the increases in income provide increases in life satisfaction only to a certain point.