摘要：We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do
individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some
baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is
often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead effects. We
cannot reject the hypothesis of complete adaptation to marriage, divorce,
widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of
adaptation to unemployment. Men are somewhat more affected by labour market
events (unemployment and layoffs) than are women, but in general the patterns of
anticipation and adaptation are remarkably similar by sex.
关键词：life satisfaction; anticipation; adaptation; baseline satisfaction; labour
market and life events
