This paper aims to analyze the impact of different intra-household arrangements, defined in terms of income pooling and decision-making responsibilities, on individual subjective well-being in a number of European countries. Using the EU-SILC 2010 module on intra-household sharing of resources and self-assessed health, as a dimension of subjective well-being, we find that the relationship between self-reported health and family arrangements differs by gender and area of decision. The results provide interesting insights on the potential determinants of individual self-assessed health that go beyond the standard ones. In particular, we identify higher levels of males’ and females’ self-assessed health connected to them controlling or sharing financial decisions. Moreover, males’ self-assessed health is positively linked to female making domestic decisions, and negatively if decisions are of financial type; whereas females’ self-assessed health is positively associated to them taking domestic decisions only in households where incomes are not fully pooled. Thus, our findings might be of help for politicians to design the most effective policies intended to improve individual standards of living and to reduce social inequalities.

本文旨在分析在收入共享和决策责任方面定义的不同家庭内部安排对许多欧洲国家的个人主观幸福感的影响。使用关于家庭内部资源共享和自我评估健康的EU-SILC 2010模块，作为主观幸福感的一个维度，我们发现自我报告的健康与家庭安排之间的关系因性别和决策领域而异。结果提供了超越标准标准的个人自我评估健康的潜在决定因素的有趣见解。尤其是，我们发现与男性控制或共享财务决策相关的男性和女性自我评估健康水平较高。此外，男性自我评估的健康状况与女性做出的家庭决策有正相关关系，而如果决策属于财务类型，则呈负相关关系；而女性的自我评估健康与她们仅在收入未充分汇集的家庭中做出家庭决定时正相关。因此，我们的发现可能有助于政客设计旨在提高个人生活水平和减少社会不平等的最有效政策。