抄録
This paper examines the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in detail in a longitudinal data set spanning 12 years. We get the following ; 1) when there are wives with children at the time of first marriage, they should not be so happy. In other words, childless single women who will get married are happier than single women with children who will get married. In Japan, at least, we find that there is an order model for marriage. 2) Single women who will marry are not much different subjective well-being than those who will not marry in 4 year ago at the time of first marriage. Single women gain subjective well-being by marrying. 3 ) Wives with small differences in their level of education between spouses don't gain, on average, much different subjective well-being from marriage than wives with large differences. For Japanese wives, differences in their level of education between spouses have no effect on their subjective well-being from marriage. 4) Social stratification like income, education status of their household has some effect on their subjective well-being from marriage. In conclusion, as for the wives, all gain subjective well-being from marriage. But, it is slightly different between their social stratification
