%0 Report
        %A Wunder, Christoph
%A Heineck, Guido
        %T Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6786
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6786
        %X We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly underemployment is detrimental for well-being. We further provide first evidence on spillovers from the partner's working time mismatch. However, the spillover becomes insignificant once we control for the partner's well-being. This suggests that well-being is contagious, and the spillover is due to interdependent utilities. Females experience the highest well-being when their partner is working full-time hours. Male wellbeing is unaffected over a wide interval of the partner's working hours.
        %K spillovers
%K subjective well-being
%K life satisfaction
%K working time preferences
%K working time mismatch
%K utility interdependence